Can't phpize or configure an extension in OS X 10.9 Mavericks

Question

I am trying to build the memcached extension on OS X 10.9 Mavericks for use with the built in PHP 5.4, initially I tried pecl install memcached but that threw t

Answer 1

As said above but not using xcode install Try installing pecl manually:

  curl -O http://pear.php.net/go-pear.phar 
  sudo php -d detect_unicode=0 go-pear.phar 

and then:

 sudo pecl install memcache

See more at: http://jason.pureconcepts.net/2012/10/install-pear-pecl-mac-os-x/#sthash.x2LKdqj6.dpuf