diff --git a/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/config/env/net-libs/libmicrohttpd b/sdk_container/src/third_party/coreos-overlay/coreos/config/env/net-libs/libmicrohttpd
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+# The usability of the eventfd is tested by linking and running a test
+# program, which can't be done when doing a cross-compiliation. So for
+# the case of cross-compilation, the configuration scripts assumes
+# that eventfd is not usable, which results in confiuration error,
+# since usage of eventfd is requested. We know that eventfd is usable
+# for us, for tell this to the configure script.
+
+export mhd_cv_eventfd_usable=yes