building pylibmc with sasl support

Question

I'm trying to build the latest version of pylibmc (1.2.2) to support SASL on CentOS 6. The documentation says that the build require libsasl2, which I have in /usr/lib64/, however, the build process for the python package does not seem to recognize the library is there.

I build the package with: python setup.py install --with-libmemcached=/usr/local/lib --with-zlib --with-sasl2

Then run the tests: python runtests.py

nose.plugins.pylibmc: INFO: injected path: build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6
nose.plugins.pylibmc: INFO: loaded _pylibmc from build/lib.linux-x86_64-2.6/_pylibmc.so
nose.plugins.pylibmc: INFO: libmemcached version: 0.51
nose.plugins.pylibmc: INFO: pylibmc version: 1.2.2
nose.plugins.pylibmc: INFO: support compression: True
nose.plugins.pylibmc: INFO: support sasl auth: False
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Ran 20 tests in 4.839s

OK

Any ideas?

Answer 1

pylibmc uses libmemcached, so for support saml you should rebuild libmemcached with saml, for that you need to install saml libries, then rebuild libmemcached from source code.