Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> writes:

> diff --git a/gnu/packages/patches/libevent-2.1-skip-failing-32bit-test.patch b/gnu/packages/patches/libevent-2.1-skip-failing-32bit-test.patch
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000..aba49ef50
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/gnu/packages/patches/libevent-2.1-skip-failing-32bit-test.patch
> @@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
> +XXX: These fail on 32-bit due to an overflow bug in the test program.
> +
> +Upstream bug URL:
> +
> +https://github.com/libevent/libevent/issues/452

The issue is isolated to the test program and not the
evutil_date_rfc1123() implementation itself, which is new in 2.1.

I pushed the patch with an additional comment as
fd05d7ecd9f021b6c52a6d27669188b44305c79d.