The patch is trivial, except for the manpage part. They chose to install doc/memcached.1 into our ${MAN1DIR}/doc/memcached.1. I decided that it would be easier to continue installing the manpage by hand, instead of trying to fix automake/autoconf spaghetti.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-ports-bugs->seanc Over to maintainer.
State Changed From-To: open->closed Patch mostly committed. Same effect, but no more auto*. Thanks for your help!