diff --git a/steps-guix/avahi-0.8/pass1.sh b/steps-guix/avahi-0.8/pass1.sh
index 5152d724..98cfc4e9 100644
--- a/steps-guix/avahi-0.8/pass1.sh
+++ b/steps-guix/avahi-0.8/pass1.sh
@@ -16,8 +16,11 @@ src_configure() {
         --includedir="${PREFIX}/include" \
         --host="${host_triplet}" \
         --build="${host_triplet}" \
+        --with-distro=lfs \
         --enable-static \
         --enable-shared \
+        --disable-glib \
+        --disable-gobject \
         --disable-gtk \
         --disable-gtk3 \
         --disable-qt3 \
diff --git a/steps-guix/libevent-2.1.12/pass1.sh b/steps-guix/libevent-2.1.12/pass1.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d6155146
--- /dev/null
+++ b/steps-guix/libevent-2.1.12/pass1.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-or-later
+
+src_prepare() {
+    default
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+    local host_triplet
+    host_triplet="$(gcc -dumpmachine)"
+
+    PATH="${PREFIX}/bin:/usr/bin:/bin" \
+    PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${LIBDIR}/pkgconfig:${PREFIX}/lib/pkgconfig" \
+    ./configure \
+        --prefix="${PREFIX}" \
+        --libdir="${LIBDIR}" \
+        --includedir="${PREFIX}/include" \
+        --host="${host_triplet}" \
+        --build="${host_triplet}" \
+        --enable-static \
+        --enable-shared
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+    default_src_compile
+}
+
+src_install() {
+    default_src_install
+}
diff --git a/steps-guix/libevent-2.1.12/sources b/steps-guix/libevent-2.1.12/sources
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..94b0af9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/steps-guix/libevent-2.1.12/sources
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+f https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases/download/release-2.1.12-stable/libevent-2.1.12-stable.tar.gz 92e6de1be9ec176428fd2367677e61ceffc2ee1cb119035037a27d346b0403bb libevent-2.1.12-stable.tar.gz
diff --git a/steps-guix/manifest b/steps-guix/manifest
index e221f19a..bc1e1880 100644
--- a/steps-guix/manifest
+++ b/steps-guix/manifest
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ build: guile-sqlite3-0.1.3
 build: guile-zlib-0.2.2
 build: guile-lzlib-0.0.2
 build: scheme-bytestructures-2.0.2
+build: libevent-2.1.12
 build: avahi-0.8
 build: guile-avahi-0.4.1
 build: guile-git-0.10.0