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[Wincent Colaiuta <516774@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Just ran into this on 32-bit Fedora 8 (eg. an Amazon Web Services "small
instance", one of the starter Amazon Machine Images provided by Amazon).

Is there any way the config script could be modified to autodetect the
platform bitsize instead of defaulting to 64-bit?

The reason why it would be handy is that the user doesn't always have
control over how "./configure" is invoked. For example, installing the
"memcache" RubyGem with "gem install memcache", the gem has a bundled
version of libmemcached (0.38) and it prebuilds it with a hardcoded
"./configure" line.

Normally with RubyGems you can pass in build options like "gem install
foo -- --some-option", but that won't work here because that only
applies to building the gem itself, not its dependencies. So in this
case the only way to install is to run "gem install", let it fail, and
then go in and hand-edit the "ext/extconf.rb" file inside the unpacked
gem and finish the install manually.

I'm going to see if I can get the memcache gem patched to avoid this
issue, but it would be nice for other users of libmemcached could be
spared the trouble too. What do you think?

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