diff --git a/dev-libs/libevent/libevent-1.4.13.bep b/dev-libs/libevent/libevent-1.4.13.bep
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..fc4e8f195
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libevent/libevent-1.4.13.bep
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+DESCRIPTION="Libevent"
+HOMEPAGE="http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/"
+SRC_URI="http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="0b3ea18c634072d12b3c1ee734263664"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
+DEPEND=""
+
+BUILD {
+	cd libevent-1.4.13-stable
+	autoreconf -vfi
+	./configure --prefix=/boot/common
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd libevent-1.4.13-stable
+	make install
+}
diff --git a/dev-libs/libevent/libevent-1.4.13.patch b/dev-libs/libevent/libevent-1.4.13.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..666e9f109
--- /dev/null
+++ b/dev-libs/libevent/libevent-1.4.13.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur libevent-1.4.11-stable/configure.in libevent-1.4.11-stable-haiku/configure.in
+--- libevent-1.4.11-stable/configure.in	2009-05-24 13:37:49.000000000 +0000
++++ libevent-1.4.11-stable-haiku/configure.in	2009-05-28 16:55:17.000000000 +0000
+@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
+ AC_SUBST(LIBTOOL_DEPS)
+ 
+ dnl Checks for libraries.
+-AC_CHECK_LIB(socket, socket)
++AC_SEARCH_LIBS(socket, socket network)
+ AC_CHECK_LIB(resolv, inet_aton)
+ AC_CHECK_LIB(rt, clock_gettime)
+ AC_CHECK_LIB(nsl, inet_ntoa)