View the most recent changes for the memcached port at: memcached.darwinports.com/diff
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for memcached.
The raw portfile for memcached 1.2.6 is located here:
http://memcached.darwinports.com/dports/sysutils/memcached/Portfile
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The memcached Portfile 40322 2008-09-29 15:58:36Z brett macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0

Name: memcached
Version: 1.2.6
Description: A high performance, distributed memory object caching system.
Long Description: Memcached is a high-performance, distributed memory object caching system, generic in nature, but intended for use in speeding up dynamic web applications by alleviating database load.
Maintainers: brett macports.org
Category: sysutils
Platform: darwin
Homepage: http://www.danga.com/memcached/
Master Sites: http://www.danga.com/memcached/dist/
Checksums: md5 200d22f7ac2d114f74a6904552e9eb70 sha1 675a2576efac3d1333181e33fdd43f45f1f5d3fa
configure.args --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --with-libevent=${prefix} --enable-threads
depends_lib port:libevent

startupitem.create yes
startupitem.name memcached
startupitem.start "${prefix}/bin/memcached -u nobody -m 64 -c 10240 -p 11211 -d"
startupitem.stop "/usr/bin/killall memcached"

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/memcached
%  sudo port install memcached  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching memcached
--->  Verifying checksum for memcached
--->  Extracting memcached
--->  Configuring memcached
--->  Building memcached with target all

--->  Staging memcached into destroot

--->  Installing memcached

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using memcached with these commands:

%  man memcached
%  apropos memcached
%  which memcached
%  locate memcached

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