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Asked: 2026-05-28T04:33:11+00:00

On doing gem install memcached following error gets thrown. …. …. checking for pod2man…

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On doing 

gem install memcached

following error gets thrown. 

....
....
checking for pod2man... /usr/bin/pod2man
./configure: line 22468: syntax error near unexpected token `sasl,,'
./configure: line 22468: `      AC_LIB_HAVE_LINKFLAGS(sasl,,'
make: *** [config.status] Error 2
*** extconf.rb failed ***
Could not create Makefile due to some reason, probably lack of
necessary libraries and/or headers.  Check the mkmf.log file for more
details.  You may need configuration options.

I have already install libmemcached using

sudo yum install libmemcached

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  1. Editorial Team

    I encountered this issue trying to install the memcached gem on Amazon’s AMI Linux.

    I resolved it with installing both cyrus-sasl and cyrus-sasl-devel:

    cyrus-sasl.i686 : The Cyrus SASL library
cyrus-sasl-devel.i686 : Files needed for developing applications with Cyrus SASL

    as well as, and this is key:

    gettext.i686 : GNU libraries and utilities for producing multi-lingual messages
gettext-devel.i686 : Development files for gettext

    Once these were installed

    sudo gem install memcached
Building native extensions.  This could take a while...
Successfully installed memcached-1.3.5 
1 gem installed
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