net-mgmt/net-snmp build error on 9.2

[Chad J. Milios]

I have pkg-1.2.7_3 installed and unused (FYI, I need pkg_tools support 
on these systems and am not prepared to make the transition to pkgng 
until sometime between now and the pkg_tools EOL). pkg-1.2.7_3 was 
pulled in as a dependency for net-mgmt/net-snmp and pkg has no other 
dependents on my system. Is there something special I need to do to get 
this to work?

There is a comment in the makefile that "pkg-1.2 cannot handle this 
dependency well." So then why is the dependency placed on pkg and not 
pkg-devel?

Thank you for any help you have to offer.

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building 'netsnmp.client_intf' extension
creating build/temp.freebsd-9.2-RELEASE-p3-amd64-2.7
creating build/temp.freebsd-9.2-RELEASE-p3-amd64-2.7/netsnmp
cc -DNDEBUG -O2 -pipe -march=core2 -I/usr/local/include 
-fno-strict-aliasing -fPIC 
-I/usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.7.2/include 
-I/usr/local/include/python2.7 -c netsnmp/client_intf.c -o 
build/temp.freebsd-9.2-RELEASE-p3-amd64-2.7/netsnmp/client_intf.o
cc -shared -pthread -Wl,-rpath,/usr/lib:/usr/local/lib -O2 -pipe 
-march=core2 -I/usr/local/include -fno-strict-aliasing 
build/temp.freebsd-9.2-RELEASE-p3-amd64-2.7/netsnmp/client_intf.o 
-L/usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.7.2/agent/.libs 
-L/usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.7.2/snmplib/.libs -lm 
-lkvm -ldevstat -lpkg -lnetsnmp -lcrypto -lelf -lssp_nonshared -o 
build/lib.freebsd-9.2-RELEASE-p3-amd64-2.7/netsnmp/client_intf.so
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lpkg
error: command 'cc' failed with exit status 1
*** [pythonmodules] Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp/work/net-snmp-5.7.2.
*** [do-build] Error code 1

Stop in /usr/ports/net-mgmt/net-snmp.