error when installing pecl memcached

Question

I've been having real trouble installing the pecl memcached package.

Have not had any joy with any yum or pear/pecl install commands I referred to this question Install PECL Memcached Error and started trying to configure/make manually

I'm using pecl to download the latest (memcached-2.2.0) then untar, phpize...

If I configure with --disable-memcached-sasl the configure completes but make fails. With what looks like syntax errors

In file included from /root/memcached-2.2.0/php_memcached_private.h:28,
                 from /root/memcached-2.2.0/php_memcached.c:26:
/root/memcached-2.2.0/php_libmemcached_compat.h:56: error: expected ‘=’, ‘,’, ‘;’, ‘asm’     or ‘__attribute__’ before ‘php_memcached_instance_st’
/root/memcached-2.2.0/php_memcached.c:328: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘php_memcached_instance_st’
/root/memcached-2.2.0/php_memcached.c:329: error: expected declaration specifiers or     ‘...’ before ‘php_memcached_instance_st’
/root/memcached-2.2.0/php_memcached.c:330: error: expected declaration specifiers or ‘...’ before ‘php_memcached_instance_st’
/root/memcached-2.2.0/php_memcached.c: In function ‘php_memc_get_impl’:
/root/memcached-2.2.0/php_memcached.c:594: warning: passing argument 4 of     ‘memcached_mget_by_key’ from incompatible pointer type
/usr/include/libmemcached/memcached_get.h:38: note: expected ‘char **’ but argument is of type ‘const char **’
/root/memcached-2.2.0/php_memcached.c: In function ‘php_memc_getMulti_impl’:

There's more of that but hopefully thats a useful enough indicator

If I use --with-libmemcached-dir=/usr/include/libmemcached i get

checking for libmemcached location... configure: error: Unable to find memcached.h under /usr/include/libmemcached

But that IS where memcached.h is

If I use --with-libmemcached-dir=no configure gives

configure: error: no, libmemcached sasl support is not enabled. Run configure with --disable-memcached-sasl to disable this check

If i add the --disable-memcached-sasl option, it configure completes but make fails with the syntax errors again

Feel like I'm stuck in a loop.

This isn't the first time I've set up a server from scratch to use memcached (although first time in a while I guess) I don't remember having any issues before.

Any ideas please anyone?

This looked like a good lead

http://blusmurf.net/2012/08/27/pecl-memcache-build-error/

But not joy still

I've also been investigating this issue from php-memcached's github page

https://github.com/php-memcached-dev/php-memcached/issues/69

I've tried with 2.1 and 2.2 now, hacking the files to try and get make to build. Still no luck...

Answer 1

If you don't need SASL, answer with this:

libmemcached directory [no] : no --disable-memcached-sasl