diff --git a/lang/php5-pecl-libevent/Makefile b/lang/php5-pecl-libevent/Makefile
index 6beee26f2..feca20df3 100644
--- a/lang/php5-pecl-libevent/Makefile
+++ b/lang/php5-pecl-libevent/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ PECL_NAME:=libevent
 PECL_LONGNAME:=Libevent - event notification
 
 PKG_VERSION:=0.1.0
-PKG_RELEASE:=1
+PKG_RELEASE:=2
 PKG_MD5SUM:=e091371a9e714098a4c04a6e3daeb56a
 
 PKG_NAME:=php5-pecl-$(PECL_NAME)
@@ -34,5 +34,5 @@ include ../php5/pecl.mk
 
 CONFIGURE_ARGS+= --with-libevent=shared,"$(STAGING_DIR)/usr"
 
-$(eval $(call PECLPackage,$(PECL_NAME),$(PECL_LONGNAME),+libevent2))
+$(eval $(call PECLPackage,$(PECL_NAME),$(PECL_LONGNAME),+libevent2 +php5-mod-sockets))
 $(eval $(call BuildPackage,$(PKG_NAME)))
diff --git a/lang/php5-pecl-libevent/patches/010-libevent2.patch b/lang/php5-pecl-libevent/patches/010-libevent2.patch
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..961fb3608
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lang/php5-pecl-libevent/patches/010-libevent2.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+--- a/libevent.c
++++ b/libevent.c
+@@ -42,10 +42,12 @@
+ 	(rsrc = (rsrc_type) zend_fetch_resource(passed_id TSRMLS_CC, default_id, resource_type_name, NULL, 1, resource_type))
+ #endif
+ 
+-#ifdef PHP_WIN32
++//#ifdef PHP_WIN32
+ /* XXX compiling with 2.x on Windows. Luckily the ext code works thanks to the
+ compat exports from the libevent. However it might need to be adapted to the
+ never version, so this ifdefs would go away. */
++#if 1
++/* force use of libevent2 on OpenWrt and by-pass compat event.h */
+ # include <event2/event.h>
+ # include <event2/event_compat.h>
+ # include <event2/event_struct.h>