Installing memcached 1.4.1 on Mac OS X 10.6 Snow LeopardEdit

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Installing libevent

libevent is a prerequisite for memcached:

$ curl -O http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.12-stable.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf libevent-1.4.12-stable.tar.gz
$ cd libevent-1.4.12-stable
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make verify
$ sudo make install

Installing memcached

$ curl -O http://memcached.googlecode.com/files/memcached-1.4.1.tar.gz
$ tar xzvf memcached-1.4.1.tar.gz
$  cd memcached-1.4.1
$ ./configure
$ make
$ make test
$ sudo make install

Testing

In my case I have a script in the script dir of a Rails application that I call whenever I want to start or stop memcached, so I just used that:

$ script/memcached
memcached not running: starting
$ script/memcached
memcached running: stopping

(The script basically just does memcached -d -P pidfile -l 127.0.0.1 to start memcached.)

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