From 74b7bfbe471c953269ba8e5f4d808db3c0a9c8a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Alex Xu (Hello71)" <alex_y_xu@yahoo.ca>
Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2017 13:14:58 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Fix configure libevent memory leak

Breaks build with externally-specified hardening flags.
---
 configure.ac | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 315bd2df35..8f56b8e805 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -527,7 +527,7 @@ struct event_base *event_base_new(void);],
 #ifdef _WIN32
 {WSADATA d; WSAStartup(0x101,&d); }
 #endif
-event_base_new();
+event_base_free(event_base_new());
 ], [--with-libevent-dir], [/opt/libevent])
 
 dnl Determine the incantation needed to link libevent.