Installation of memcached - unable to find libevent

Question

To install memcached I run:

./configure

from memcached server location but I receive error:

checking for libevent directory... configure: error: libevent is required.  You can get it from http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/

      If it's already installed, specify its path using --with-libevent=/dir/

So I installed libevent manually by downloading from http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/ and running ./configure from downloaded libevent folder

But when I try command:

./configure  --with-libevent=/export/home/me/libevent-2.0.21-stable/

I receive same error :

checking for libevent directory... configure: error: libevent is required.  You can get it from http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent/

      If it's already installed, specify its path using --with-libevent=/dir/

How can I check where libevent is installed? Am I specifying the path correctly?

I'm required to install libevent manually as I'm installing memcached from behind a firewall.

Answer 1

After downloading and extracting libevent, you have to configure, build and install it.

Only then can you go back to the memcached directory and rerun its configure, specifying where you installed libevent if it wasn't in one of the standard places (such as /lib, /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib).