with as-needed the lib order is important

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index c88759628a73a0a3401d2f896534b03b86ea89ac..19996fb5d1225d9b89d618516473be26c77d484a 100644 (file)
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ AC_ARG_WITH(libevent,
   [ test "$withval" = "no" && AC_MSG_ERROR("cannot work without libevent")
     CPPFLAGS="$CPPFLAGS -I$withval/include"
     LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$withval/lib" ])
-LIBS="$LIBS -levent"
+LIBS="-levent $LIBS"
 AC_LINK_IFELSE([
   #include <sys/types.h>
   #include <sys/time.h>