My server contains a "standard" server build for our group that
includes the .so files but no "libevent installation" directory.
Are there specific files that the memcached configure task needs from
the libevent installation directory?

On Oct 5, 3:34 pm, Trond Norbye <[email protected]> wrote:
> You need to specify the "root" of your libevent installation, so if you
> built libevent with: ./configure --prefix=$HOME/my-libevent , you should use
> --with-libevent=$HOME/my-libevent
>
> If you installed a static arcive you would probably want to add LDFLAGS=-lrt
> ..
>
> CHeers,
>
> Trond
>
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> On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 9:21 PM, michael.s <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm trying to install memcached (1.4.5) on Linux (Boron 5.5).  My
> > machine already has the libevent .so files (libevent-1.4.so.2,
> > libevent_core-1.4.so.2, libevent_extra-1.4.so.2).  Admin policy won't
> > allow me to load the libevent source files onto this machine and
> > follow the normal build instructions.
>
> > I have tried running the memcached configure command using --with-
> > libevent=/dir_where_so_files_reside/
> > but this fails with the message:
>
> > checking for libevent directory... configure: error: libevent is
> > required.  You can get it from ....
>
> > Can this be done?
>
> > Does memcached use static or dynamic links to libevent?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Hoping to find a way to use memcached
>
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