Memcache Necessities

While helping a fellow facebook developer get memcache setup, I ran across a few problems getting memcache running. Luckily I found the solution at http://louzell.wordpress.com/2007/10/11/how-to-install-memcached/

First install libevent:

#curl -O http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.3e.tar.gz
#tar xzvf libevent-1.3e.tar.gz
#cd libevent-1.3e
#./configure --prefix=/usr/local
#make
#make install

And then finally memcache:

#curl -O http://www.danga.com/memcached/dist/memcached-1.2.2.tar.gz
#tar xzvf memcached-1.2.2.tar.gz
#cd memcached-1.2.2.tar.gz
#LDFLAGS='-Wl,--rpath /usr/local/lib' ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
#make
#make install

Update: For the latest 1.2.6 i used

#LDFLAGS='-Wl,--rpath /usr/local/lib' ./configure --prefix=/usr/local --enable-64bit --enable-threads