The libevent fallback monotonic clock is broken, but it should never be used anyway on musl, so disable testing it. (the brokenness involves gettimeofday, you don't want to know) --- libevent-2.1.8-stable/test/regress_util.c.old 2017-01-15 03:04:34.000000000 -0600 +++ libevent-2.1.8-stable/test/regress_util.c 2017-09-14 16:25:58.887687965 -0500 @@ -1482,7 +1482,7 @@ { "monotonic_res_fallback", test_evutil_monotonic_res, TT_OFF_BY_DEFAULT, &basic_setup, (void*)"fallback" }, { "monotonic_prc", test_evutil_monotonic_prc, 0, &basic_setup, (void*)"" }, { "monotonic_prc_precise", test_evutil_monotonic_prc, 0, &basic_setup, (void*)"precise" }, - { "monotonic_prc_fallback", test_evutil_monotonic_prc, 0, &basic_setup, (void*)"fallback" }, + /* { "monotonic_prc_fallback", test_evutil_monotonic_prc, 0, &basic_setup, (void*)"fallback" }, */ { "date_rfc1123", test_evutil_date_rfc1123, 0, NULL, NULL }, END_OF_TESTCASES, };