-memcached_st structures are thread safe, but each thread must contain its own structure (aka if you want to share these among threads you must provide your own locking). No global variables are used in this library.
+Partitioning based on keys is supported in the library. Using the key partioning
+functions it is possible to group sets of object onto servers.
+
+C<memcached_st> structures are thread-safe, but each thread must
+contain its own structure (that is, if you want to share these among
+threads you must provide your own locking). No global variables are
+used in this library.
+
+If you are working with GNU autotools you will want to add the following to
+your configure.ac to properly include libmemcached in your application.
+
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES(DEPS, libmemcached >= 0.8.0)
+AC_SUBST(DEPS_CFLAGS)
+AC_SUBST(DEPS_LIBS)
+
+Some features of the library must be enabled through memcached_behavior_set().