Jeff some more help on this one. I have no idea what you mean by "You need full libevent devel package setup, not just the library." Please explain.
Yes, the same problem - i've installed libevent (cd /usr/ports/devel/libevent && make install clean), but there's no use for pushpool to compile, the configure script stops, saying:
checking for event_base_new in -levent... no
configure: error: Missing required libevent
Can somebody tell me, where can I get this "full libevent devel package setup" ?
Sounds like user error. INSTALL file covers the basics of how to use a standard GNU autotools configure script. A script cannot magically detect site-specific directories for software installation.
If you have a bunch of stuff installed into non-standard directory /usr/local -- common on FreeBSD -- then you want something like
CFLAGS="-O2 -Wall -g -I/usr/local/include" LDFLAGS="-L/usr/local/lib" ./configure