make: Nothing to be done for 'all' #11922

Hi everyone, I am unable to run bitcoind even after running sudo make install. There is nothing in this program even though make install "completes".

Making all in doc/man
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all'.
make[1]: Nothing to be done for `all-am'.

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It happens every single time. ` $ ./configure --with-incompatible-bdb --with-protoc-bindir=/usr/local/Cellar/protobuf I have had other errors and this is the final error I am unable to get rid of. Short of doing a clean reinstall on my Mac I have no idea how to continue. Maybe I just have accumulated too much junk on this through bad practices prior (I am no trained developer, would just install things through brew and ignore any warnings or errors unless I really had to pay attention)

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v0.15.0.1 Git clone

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Mac OS X with High Sierra I am running this on an external HDD but writing to /usr/ https://pastebin.com/6kLbPi3u

PS - the output of brew doctor.

 brew doctor
Please note that these warnings are just used to help the Homebrew maintainers
with debugging if you file an issue. If everything you use Homebrew for is
working fine: please don't worry or file an issue; just ignore this. Thanks!

Warning: "config" scripts exist outside your system or Homebrew directories.
`./configure` scripts often look for *-config scripts to determine if
software packages are installed, and what additional flags to use when
compiling and linking.

Having additional scripts in your path can confuse software installed via
Homebrew if the config script overrides a system or Homebrew provided
script of the same name. We found the following "config" scripts:
  /Users/annjie/anaconda/bin/icu-config
  /Users/annjie/anaconda/bin/geos-config
  /Users/annjie/anaconda/bin/freetype-config
  /Users/annjie/anaconda/bin/xslt-config
  /Users/annjie/anaconda/bin/libpng16-config
  /Users/annjie/anaconda/bin/python3.6m-config
  /Users/annjie/anaconda/bin/libpng-config
  /Users/annjie/anaconda/bin/xml2-config
  /Users/annjie/anaconda/bin/python3-config
  /Users/annjie/anaconda/bin/curl-config
  /Users/annjie/anaconda/bin/python3.6-config
  /Users/annjie/anaconda/bin/nc-config

Warning: Python is installed at /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework

Homebrew only supports building against the System-provided Python or a
brewed Python. In particular, Pythons installed to /Library can interfere
with other software installs.

Warning: Unbrewed dylibs were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected dylibs:
  /usr/local/lib/libbitcoinconsensus.0.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libtcl8.6.dylib
  /usr/local/lib/libtk8.6.dylib

Warning: Unbrewed header files were found in /usr/local/include.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected header files:
  /usr/local/include/bitcoinconsensus.h
  /usr/local/include/fakemysql.h
  /usr/local/include/fakepq.h
  /usr/local/include/fakesql.h
  /usr/local/include/itcl.h
  /usr/local/include/itcl2TclOO.h
  /usr/local/include/itclDecls.h
  /usr/local/include/itclInt.h
  /usr/local/include/itclIntDecls.h
  /usr/local/include/itclMigrate2TclCore.h
  /usr/local/include/itclTclIntStubsFcn.h
  /usr/local/include/mysqlStubs.h
  /usr/local/include/odbcStubs.h
  /usr/local/include/pqStubs.h
  /usr/local/include/tcl.h
  /usr/local/include/tclDecls.h
  /usr/local/include/tclOO.h
  /usr/local/include/tclOODecls.h
  /usr/local/include/tclPlatDecls.h
  /usr/local/include/tclThread.h
  /usr/local/include/tclTomMath.h
  /usr/local/include/tclTomMathDecls.h
  /usr/local/include/tdbc.h
  /usr/local/include/tdbcDecls.h
  /usr/local/include/tdbcInt.h
  /usr/local/include/tk.h
  /usr/local/include/tkDecls.h
  /usr/local/include/tkPlatDecls.h

Warning: Unbrewed .la files were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected .la files:
  /usr/local/lib/libbitcoinconsensus.la

Warning: Unbrewed .pc files were found in /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected .pc files:
  /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/libbitcoinconsensus.pc
  /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/tcl.pc
  /usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/tk.pc

Warning: Unbrewed static libraries were found in /usr/local/lib.
If you didn't put them there on purpose they could cause problems when
building Homebrew formulae, and may need to be deleted.

Unexpected static libraries:
  /usr/local/lib/libbitcoinconsensus.a
  /usr/local/lib/libtclstub8.6.a
  /usr/local/lib/libtkstub8.6.a

Warning: You have unlinked kegs in your Cellar
Leaving kegs unlinked can lead to build-trouble and cause brews that depend on
those kegs to fail to run properly once built. Run `brew link` on these:
  git

I did a clean install, reformatted my whole hard disk.... and reinstalled brew and required dependencies and am still getting the issue.

@annjieching Have you tried running "make clean" in the project folder then rebuilding?

BTW I think your --with-protoc-bindir arg should be in this form: /usr/local/Cellar/protobuf/3.5.0.1/bin

Yes, I did, multiple times :( Thank you @Empact for the tip on protoc-bindir.

So I just went ahead and ran bitcoind. after a few false starts where it would not say anything, I changed the config file to what I needed and let it rip. It's running a full node now.

Do you think that is fine?

@annjieching From your pastebin log, it looks like ./configure is failing. I put a detailed writeup of successful macOS native build on bitcointalk.org Dev/Tech. This writeup includes a sample environment and should be repeatable.

If any of the Homebrew formula installs failed you will need to resolve those issues first.

Between build attempts be run the following:

• make clean
• find . -name Makefile.in | xargs -I {} -t rm -f {}
• rm configure

Then rebuild with:

• ./autogen.sh --with-gui=yes
• ./configure --prefix=${my_prefix} --with-gui=yes
• make
• make install