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+To build libevent, type
+
+$ ./configure && make
+
+     (If you got libevent from the subversion repository, you will
+      first need to run the included "autogen.sh" script in order to
+      generate the configure script.)
+
+Install as root via
+
+# make install
+
+You can run the regression tests by
+
+$ make verify
+
+Before, reporting any problems, please run the regression tests.
+
+To enable the low-level tracing build the library as:
+
+CFLAGS=-DUSE_DEBUG ./configure [...]
+
+Acknowledgements:
+-----------------
+
+The following people have helped with suggestions, ideas, code or
+fixing bugs:
+
+  Alejo
+  Weston Andros Adamson
+  William Ahern
+  Stas Bekman
+  Andrew Danforth
+  Mike Davis
+  Shie Erlich
+  Alexander von Gernler
+  Artur Grabowski
+  Aaron Hopkins
+  Claudio Jeker
+  Scott Lamb
+  Adam Langley
+  Philip Lewis
+  David Libenzi
+  Nick Mathewson
+  Andrey Matveev
+  Richard Nyberg
+  Jon Oberheide
+  Phil Oleson
+  Dave Pacheco
+  Tassilo von Parseval
+  Pierre Phaneuf
+  Jon Poland
+  Bert JW Regeer
+  Dug Song
+  Taral
+
+If I have forgotten your name, please contact me.