net-snmp: No rule to make target `add_mibdir.3', needed by `maninstall'

[renz@…]

--->  Staging net-snmp into destroot
Error: org.macports.destroot for port net-snmp returned: command execution failed
Please see the log file for port net-snmp for details:
    /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_opt_local_var_macports_sources_rsync.macports.org_release_tarballs_ports_net_net-snmp/net-snmp/main.log
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Error: Processing of port net-snmp failed

[mf2k (Frank Schima)]

In the future, please Cc the port maintainer(s).

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Strange, the only hit for the error message "No rule to make target `add_mibdir.3', needed by `maninstall'" on Google is ​http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.net-snmp.user/32434 but that was for version 5.6 and the fix mentioned there is already in the version 5.7.1 that you're using.

[squiggledid]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Strange, the only hit for the error message "No rule to make target `add_mibdir.3', needed by `maninstall'" on Google is ​http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.net-snmp.user/32434 but that was for version 5.6 and the fix mentioned there is already in the version 5.7.1 that you're using.

I just got this exact error:

:info:destroot make[1]: *** No rule to make target `add_mibdir.3', needed by `maninstall'.  Stop.

while trying to install net-snmp-5.7.2

[squiggledid]

Replying to david.mcg.squire@…:

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Strange, the only hit for the error message "No rule to make target `add_mibdir.3', needed by `maninstall'" on Google is ​http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.network.net-snmp.user/32434 but that was for version 5.6 and the fix mentioned there is already in the version 5.7.1 that you're using.

I just got this exact error:

:info:destroot make[1]: *** No rule to make target `add_mibdir.3', needed by `maninstall'.  Stop."

while trying to install net-snmp-5.7.2

Also, the @EGREP@ fix mentioned in your link above is there in man/Makefile.in, but I still get the error on Mavericks. (NB. @EGREP@ is translated to '/usr/bin/grep -e')

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Thanks for letting me know this was not an isolated incident. I re-examined the original log attached here 20 months ago, and noticed that it was building with -j24 -- in other words, 24 parallel jobs. Unless you've modified macports.conf, this would only occur on a machine with 12 hyperthreaded cores and at least 24 GB RAM, which is not a system I have tested on. But trying to build with build.jobs=24 now, even on my 4-core MacBook Pro, I was able to reproduce the problem. I disabled the parallel build in r118825 and will report this bug to the developers of net-snmp.

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

and will report this bug to the developers of net-snmp.

​https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/bugs/2540/

[fenner@…]

Replying to ryandesign@…:

Replying to ryandesign@…:

and will report this bug to the developers of net-snmp.

​https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/bugs/2540/

There's a patch there, if you'd care to see if it fixes the original problem - ​https://sourceforge.net/p/net-snmp/bugs/_discuss/thread/23e9e381/1c6b/attachment/man-makefile-parallel.diff

[ryandesign (Ryan Carsten Schmidt)]

The patch was committed upstream and included in net-snmp 5.7.3, to which the net-snmp port was updated in r129760.