Installing From Source

摘要: Installing From Source

NewInstallFromSource

Using the Source, Luke

Updated Dec 12, 2012 by tsaavik

Why Build From Source

Before you build from source, consider why? If you have a perfectly good package of a recent version, you're better off using that.

Building From Source

Prereqs

You'll likely need to install the development package for libevent

Ubuntu: apt-get install libevent-dev

Redhat/Fedora: yum install libevent-devel

Get

wget http
tar zxvf memcachedxtargz
cd memcachedx

Config

Optional install destination

If your compiling from source you likely want to specify a destination directory as well, replace /usr/local/memcached with whatever you fancy.

./configure --prefix=/usr/local/memcached

Make and install

make  make test
sudo make install

If you wish to build with SASL support, ensure the cyrus-sasl libraries are built and run ./configure --enable-sasl. See the SASLHowto for more information.

To Build a Package, or make install ?

If you're deploying memcached to more than one server, you probably really want to package it. That way you may have cleaner updates, easy uninstalls, easy re-installs, future installs, etc. make install is for developers and chumps.

Building an RPM

The memcached source tarball has contained a workable .spec file. To use it, create a build directory for RPM and compile memcached using the commands below. Do not run this as root, as tests will not pass.

echo   homeyourpmbuildSPECSBUILDSRPMSRPMSSOURCES
wget http
rpmbuild ta memcachedxtargz

You will need gcc and libevent-devel installed. (yum install gcc libevent libevent-devel)
Then install the RPM via a standard rpm -Uvh memcached-etc.rpm

Building a deb

TODO: this section

Building clients

Note that many clients depend on libmemcached. They either include it in their sources, or require an external build. You can follow the above practices for fetching and installing libmemcached as well.

PEAR/CPAN/GEM/etc

If you're building from source, especially remember that most major languages have distribution systems which make installation easy.