depends: Add libevent compatibility patch for windows #8730

1. 
   laanwj commented at 5:34 pm on September 14, 2016: member

   Add a patch that seems to be necessary for compatibilty of libevent 2.0.22 with recent mingw-w64 gcc versions (at least GCC 5.3.1 from Ubuntu 16.04).

   Without this patch the Content-Length in the HTTP header ends up as Content-Length: zu, causing communication between the RPC client and server to break down. See discussion in #8653.

   Source: https://sourceforge.net/p/levent/bugs/363/

   Thanks to @sstone for the suggestion. Hopefully this won’t cause regressions with Trusty.

2. depends: Add libevent compatibility patch for windows

   Add a patch that seems to be necessary for compatibilty of libevent
   2.0.22 with recent mingw-w64 gcc versions (at least GCC 5.3.1 from Ubuntu
   16.04).
   
   Without this patch the Content-Length in the HTTP header ends up as
   `Content-Length: zu`, causing communication between the RPC
   client and server to break down. See discussion in #8653.
   
   Source: https://sourceforge.net/p/levent/bugs/363/
   
   Thanks to @sstone for the suggestion.

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3. laanwj added the label Windows on Sep 14, 2016
4. laanwj added the label Build system on Sep 14, 2016
5. 
   laanwj commented at 7:28 am on September 19, 2016: member

   Hopefully this won’t cause regressions with Trusty.

   Apparently not. Travis RPC tests still pass.

6. laanwj added this to the milestone 0.14.0 on Sep 19, 2016
7. 
   theuni commented at 4:26 pm on September 19, 2016: member

   ut ACK.
8. 
   laanwj commented at 7:18 am on September 29, 2016: member

   For reference this is upstream issue https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/326, which was fixed upstream in https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/79b69d8 and is part of the 2.1.6 release
9. laanwj merged this on Sep 29, 2016
10. laanwj closed this on Sep 29, 2016

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