diff --git a/libraries/libevent/README b/libraries/libevent/README
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+The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function
+when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout
+has been reached. Furthermore, libevent also support callbacks due
+to signals or regular timeouts.
+
diff --git a/libraries/libevent/libevent.SlackBuild b/libraries/libevent/libevent.SlackBuild
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+++ b/libraries/libevent/libevent.SlackBuild
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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Slackware build script for libevent
+# Written by Erik Hanson  erik@slackbuilds.org
+# Modified by the SlackBuilds.org project
+
+PRGNAM=libevent
+VERSION=1.2a
+ARCH=${ARCH:-i486}
+BUILD=${BUILD:-2}
+TAG=${TAG:-_SBo}
+CWD=$(pwd)
+TMP=${TMP:-/tmp/SBo}
+PKG=$TMP/package-$PRGNAM
+OUTPUT=${OUTPUT:-/tmp}
+
+if [ "$ARCH" = "i486" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i486 -mtune=i686"
+elif [ "$ARCH" = "i686" ]; then
+  SLKCFLAGS="-O2 -march=i686 -mtune=i686"
+fi
+
+rm -rf $PKG
+mkdir -p $TMP $PKG $OUTPUT
+cd $TMP || exit 1
+rm -rf $PRGNAM-$VERSION
+tar xvf $CWD/$PRGNAM-$VERSION.tar.gz || exit 1
+cd $PRGNAM-$VERSION || exit 1
+chown -R root:root .
+chmod -R u+w,go+r-w,a-s .
+
+CFLAGS="$SLKCFLAGS" \
+./configure \
+  --prefix=/usr \
+  --sysconfdir=/etc \
+  --localstatedir=/var \
+  --enable-static=no \
+  || exit 1
+
+make || exit 1
+make install-strip DESTDIR=$PKG || exit 1
+
+if [ -d $PKG/usr/man ]; then
+  ( cd $PKG/usr/man
+    find . -type f -exec gzip -9 {} \;
+    for i in $(find . -type l) ; do ln -s $(readlink $i).gz $i.gz ; rm $i ; done
+  )
+fi
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cp -a README sample $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION
+cat $CWD/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild > $PKG/usr/doc/$PRGNAM-$VERSION/$PRGNAM.SlackBuild
+
+mkdir -p $PKG/install
+cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
+
+cd $PKG
+/sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.tgz
diff --git a/libraries/libevent/libevent.info b/libraries/libevent/libevent.info
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+++ b/libraries/libevent/libevent.info
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+PRGNAM="libevent"
+VERSION="1.2a"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/"
+DOWNLOAD="http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.2a.tar.gz"
+MD5SUM="bb0b731b0c1bfa7267b8cd6192982d68"
+MAINTAINER="Erik Hanson"
+EMAIL="erik@slackbuilds.org"
+APPROVED="rworkman"
diff --git a/libraries/libevent/slack-desc b/libraries/libevent/slack-desc
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+libevent: libevent - an event notification library
+libevent: 
+libevent: The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function
+libevent: when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout
+libevent: has been reached. Furthermore, libevent also support callbacks due
+libevent: to signals or regular timeouts.
+libevent:
+libevent: http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
+libevent:
+libevent:
+libevent: