[Package Request] - php-pecl-memcached

[sunaoka]

What package is missing from Amazon Linux 2023? Please describe and include package name.

php-pecl-memcached, php-pecl-igbinary

Is this an update to existing package or new package request?

New package request.

Is this package available in Amazon Linux 2?

Yes.

Number of users impacted

More than 1 million users we serve.

[jocel1]

at least libmemcached package should be available to be able to easily install memcached through pecl install memcached

[ozbenh]

We are investigating adding libmemcached-awesome (so you get the library at least) in a future release. We don't currently have plans to ship pecl packages, but this should enable pecl install of it hopefully

[gregnetau]

FYI this is what it took me to get it working in an .ebextension

    command: |
      if [[ $(php -m | grep memcached | wc -l) -eq "0" ]]; then
        cd /tmp
        wget <your S3 URL>/libmemcached-1.1.4.rpm -O /tmp/libmemcached.rpm
        rpm -ihv /tmp/libmemcached.rpm
        pecl install  --onlyreqdeps --nobuild memcached
        cd "$(pecl config-get temp_dir)/redis"
        phpize
        ./configure --disable-memcached-sasl
        sudo make 
        sudo make install
      else
        echo "memcached allready loaded."
      fi

[jocel1]

hi @gregnetau, you can also use --configureoptions if you want to avoid phpize / configure / make lines :

e.g.:

pecl install --configureoptions 'with-libmemcached-dir="no" with-zlib-dir="no" with-system-fastlz="no" enable-memcached-igbinary="yes" enable-memcached-msgpack="no" enable-memcached-json="no" enable-memcached-protocol="no" enable-memcached-sasl="no" enable-memcached-session="no"' memcached

[ajsultandev]

hi @jocel1, I tried your command but its still failing due to requiring the libmemcached directory

checking for libmemcached location... configure: error: memcached support requires libmemcached. Use --with-libmemcached-dir=<DIR> to specify the prefix where libmemcached headers and library are located
ERROR: `/var/tmp/memcached/configure --with-php-config=/usr/bin/php-config --with-libmemcached-dir=no --with-zlib-dir=no --with-system-fastlz=no --enable-memcached-igbinary=yes --enable-memcached-msgpack=no --enable-memcached-json=no --enable-memcached-protocol=no --enable-memcached-sasl=no --enable-memcached-session=no' failed

The library needs to get added at least for us to build it using pecl.

[limmike]

libmemcached-awesome is available in version 2023.2.20230920. This is how I install it in my LAMP stack CloudFormation UserData.

dnf install -q -y php-devel php-pear gcc
pear update-channels
pecl update-channels

/usr/bin/yes 'no' | pecl install igbinary
echo 'extension=igbinary.so' > /etc/php.d/30-igbinary.ini

/usr/bin/yes 'no' | pecl install msgpack
echo 'extension=msgpack.so' > /etc/php.d/30-msgpack.ini

dnf install -q -y memcached-devel libmemcached-awesome-devel zlib-devel cyrus-sasl-devel libevent-devel
/usr/bin/yes 'no' | pecl install --configureoptions 'enable-memcached-igbinary="yes" enable-memcached-msgpack="yes" enable-memcached-json="yes" enable-memcached-protocol="yes" enable-memcached-sasl="yes" enable-memcached-session="yes"' memcached
echo 'extension=memcached.so' > /etc/php.d/41-memcached.ini

Run the above commands as root

Edit: include igbinary and msgpack

[cbanack]

To build on limmike's answer, you also need to install igbinary and msgpack.

My Dockerfile starts with the following:

FROM public.ecr.aws/amazonlinux/amazonlinux:2023.2.20230920.1
# in a few days/weeks, the latest 2023 from docker hub should work fine too:
#FROM amazonlinux:2023

and further down:

# NOTE: Amazon Linux 2023 doesn't include any external php extensions, so
# we have to download and build them ourselves with pear, pecl and gcc:
RUN  dnf -y install php8.2-devel php-pear gcc && \
   pear update channels && \
   pecl update channels && \
   \
   # build + install igbinary for use by php-memcached
   pecl install igbinary && \
   echo "extension=igbinary.so" | sudo tee /etc/php.d/20-igbinary.ini && \
   \
   # build + install msgpack for use by php-memcached
   pecl install msgpack && \
   echo "extension=msgpack.so" | sudo tee /etc/php.d/20-msgpack.ini && \
   \
   # build + install php-memcached
   dnf install -q -y memcached-devel memcached \
       libmemcached-awesome-devel libmemcached-awesome \
       zlib-devel zlib cyrus-sasl cyrus-sasl-devel \
       libevent libevent-devel && \
   pecl install --configureoptions \
      'with-zlib-dir="no" \
       with-system-fastlz="no" \
       with-libmemcached-dir="no" \
       enable-memcached-igbinary="yes" \
       enable-memcached-msgpack="yes" \
       enable-memcached-json="yes" \
       enable-memcached-protocol="yes" \
       enable-memcached-sasl="yes" \
       enable-memcached-session="yes"' memcached &&  \
   echo "extension=memcached.so" | sudo tee /etc/php.d/25-memcached.ini && \
   \
   # clean up php dev tools and the dnf cache
   dnf remove -y gcc php8.2-devel php-pear libzip-devel \
      memcached-devel libmemcached-awesome-devel zlib-devel \
      cyrus-sasl-devel libevent-devel && \
   dnf autoremove -y && dnf clean all && rm -rf /var/cache/dnf

Then when I run phpinfo(), on this image, I get a working php-memcached module:

[ajsultandev]

Confirming that after updating to version 2023.2.20230920 I can now build and install memcached using pecl!

Both instructions from limmike and cbanack works just fine, just make sure you are in the newest version of al2023 mentioned above.