diff --git a/dev-libs/libevent/libevent-2.1.12.recipe b/dev-libs/libevent/libevent-2.1.12.recipe
index bf54bbeb3..73a449add 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libevent/libevent-2.1.12.recipe
+++ b/dev-libs/libevent/libevent-2.1.12.recipe
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ HOMEPAGE="http://www.libevent.org/"
 COPYRIGHT="2000-2007 Niels Provos
 	2005 Nick Mathewson, and other contributors."
 LICENSE="BSD (3-clause)"
-REVISION="4"
+REVISION="5"
 SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-$portVersion-stable/libevent-$portVersion-stable.tar.gz"
 CHECKSUM_SHA256="92e6de1be9ec176428fd2367677e61ceffc2ee1cb119035037a27d346b0403bb"
 SOURCE_DIR="libevent-${portVersion}-stable"
@@ -80,8 +80,8 @@ BUILD()
 {
 	autoreconf -fi
 
-	CPPFLAGS="-DB_USE_POSITIVE_POSIX_ERRORS -D_BSD_SOURCE -DEV_ENABLE=0" \
-		LDFLAGS="-lbsd -lposix_error_mapper -lnetwork" \
+	CPPFLAGS="-D_BSD_SOURCE -DEV_ENABLE=0" \
+		LDFLAGS="-lbsd -lnetwork" \
 		runConfigure ./configure --disable-static
 	make $jobArgs
 }