* Hacking Memcached
 
* Prerequisites
 
 - autoconf
 - automake
 - autotools
 - libevent
 
* Getting Started
 
After checking out a git repository, you must first run autogen.sh
once in order to create the configure script.
 
Next, run the configure script and start doing builds.
 
* Setting up Git
 
Though not required, there are a couple of things you can add to git
to help development.
 
** Pre Commit Hook
 
The pre-commit hook can be used to ensure that your tree passes tests
before allowing a commit.  To do so, add the following to
.git/hooks/pre-commit (which must be executable):
 
    #!/bin/sh
    make test
 
** Post Commit Hook
 
Because the version number changes on each commit, it's good to use a
post commit hook to update the version number after each commit so as
to keep the reporting accurate.  To do so, add the following to
.git/hooks/post-commit (which must be executable)
 
    #!/bin/sh
    ./version.sh
 
** Running memcached in gdb for tests.
 
By default `make test` will spawn a memcached daemon for each test.
This doesn't let you easily drop into gdb or run verbosely.
 
If you export the environment variable
T_MEMD_USE_DAEMON="127.0.0.1:11211" the tests will use an existing
daemon at that address.