install on Solaris?

[Evan Martin]

The next step is to make a patch, test it, and submit it.  Soon, your
contribution to memcached will rival mine.  :)

Something along the lines of this seems appropriate:
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-core/3903

(You can use the "autogen" script in the CVS version to regenerate
configure from configure.in.)


On 4/21/05, Colin Murtaugh <cmurtaugh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Thanks for the tip; I discovered that there was an unresolved symbol
> error being generated by the libevent test:
> 
> Undefined                       first referenced
>   symbol                             in file
> socketpair
> /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.1/../../../
> libevent.a(signal.o)
> ld: fatal: Symbol referencing errors. No output written to conftest
> 
> which I was ultimately able to resolve by setting some CFLAGS:
> 
> export CFLAGS='-lsocket -lmalloc -lresolv'
> 
> as mentioned in this post:
> 
> http://lists.danga.com/pipermail/memcached/2004-August/000766.html
> 
> I also had to change test/test.sh to use bash instead of sh on my
> system.
> 
> Seems to be working now!
> 
> --Colin
> 
> On Apr 21, 2005, at 12:49 PM, Evan Martin wrote:
> 
> > Check out config.log and try to find the context near where it spat
> > out that error message.  Before it there ought to be logged some
> > attempt at compiling a test program that uses libevent.  Either try to
> > figure out why that failed, or paste it here and I'll take a stab at
> > it.
> >
> > On 4/21/05, Colin Murtaugh <cmurtaugh at yahoo.com> wrote:
> >> Hi --
> >>
> >> Can anyone give me any pointers on getting memcached to build on
> >> Solaris 8? I can't get past this error when trying to configure:
> >>
> >> configure: error: libevent is required.  You can get it from
> >> http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/
> >>
> >> I've already installed libevent, but can't get the memcached configure
> >> script to see it.  I've tried using the --with-libevent param but I
> >> still get the same error.
> >>
> >> Let me know if I can provide any other useful information.
> >>
> >> Thanks-
> >> Colin
> >>
> >>
> 
>