Uninstall memcached and/or (force) install with Homebrew - Mac OS X

Question

I need a memcached on my Mac (os X 10.8), and I began by installing memcached and libevent 'manually' (1). Well, maybe I did this a bit too quickly, and now I'm figuring out that it would be better to install it 'cleanly' with Homebrew.

I think I should first uninstall 'cleanly' libevent and memcached. Should I ? Or should I simply run brew install memcached , and use the function to delete the files Homebrew thinks are to be deleted ? (I mean brew link -f memcached after brew install memcached ; I'm wondering how 'clean' it will be , and if I won't encounter problems hard to solve later on ...)

Thanks for your help !

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(1) how I installed libevent:

cd /tmp
wget http://www.monkey.org/~provos/libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz
tar zxvf libevent-1.4.13-stable.tar.gz
./configure
make
sudo make install

and memcached :

wget http://memcached.googlecode.com/files/memcached-1.4.1.tar.gz
tar xzvf memcached-1.4.1.tar.gz
cd memcached-1.4.1
./configure
make
make test
sudo make install
memcached -d -P pidfile -l 127.0.0.1

Answer 1

Both Memcached & libevent ship with a Makefile uninstall target-command. Assuming you still have your previously configured source files; else, you need to run ./configure before running any make commands.

cd memcached-1.4.1
sudo make uninstall
cd ../libevent-1.4.1-stable
sudo make uninstall

Afterward, you should be able to install everything cleanly with Homebrew.