It's ok I solved this, libevent was 64bit I wrongly assumed memcached would default to also being 64 bit under solaris 10, then I saw the flag in the configure script used it and the configure then completes ok.
Brett On Nov 20, 11:08 am, hiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to install memcached 1.2.6 and am having problems at the > configure stage. > > When running configure I get > > checking for libevent directory... configure: error: libevent is > required. You can get it fromhttp://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ > > If it's already installed, specify its path using --with- > libevent=/dir/ > > However libevent is installed in /opt/libevent but even if I pass -- > with-libevent=/opt/libevent to configure I still get the same error > message (Have also tried passing all the subdirs as arguements > aswell). The libevent installed is version 1.4.4 > > So can anyone tell me why memcached is refusing to acknowledge it's > existence and what I can do to solve the problem. > > The OS is Solaris 10 on sparc. > > Regards > > Brett
