[Buildroot] [PATCH v4] libevent: Use github call & fix patch

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Maxime Hadjinlian,

On Sun, 19 Oct 2014 19:21:01 +0200, Maxime Hadjinlian wrote:
> We want to use the github helper since there is not a specific releases
> tarball that we can download, as specified in the manual.
> 
> This tarball is generated from the tag, which doesn't contains the
> autotools generated files, we then need to use AUTORECONF.
> 
> We want to use the github helper anyway as the current URL use an old
> GitHub feature which was called 'Download' where you could upload files
> along your repositories, theses files were not related to your tags.
> 
> This features has been replaced with the 'Release' option where you can
> create a release from a git tag. But these tarball are generated from
> the sources and they don't contains all the generated autotools file.
> 
> Since the old URL scheme can be deprecated at any time, we want to
> switch to the new URL scheme, which in the case of libevent, implies
>     having to do an AUTORECONF.
> 
> The patch that was already present is updated to apply against
> Makefile.am instead of Makefile.in
> 
> The second patch is backported from upstream to remove the use of
> $(top_src_dirs) which makes current autotools error out.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Maxime Hadjinlian <maxime.hadjinlian@gmail.com>

Applied, thanks!

Thomas
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