tor libevent problem

Found that many people have the same problem as me with compiling tor (tor-0.1.1.24) which says it requires libevent. Installing libevent again doesn't help - it says

error: Found linkable libevent in (system), but it doesn't run, even with -R.  
Maybe specify another using --with-libevent-dir?

Don't know the solution yet.

Edit - resolved - here.