I configured MariaDB with "--enable-libevent" and didn't have libevent itself installed on the system. It built against the internal one, but on "make install" installs the header files into $prefix/include/.
I can provide build log and full configure line if necessary. Didn't try yet what happens when libevent is installed.
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