Re: MinGW build error (3) No rule to make target `corefcn/libcorefcn.la', needed by 'octave-config.exe'

[Philip Nienhuis]

John W. Eaton wrote:
> On 27-Aug-2012, Philip Nienhuis wrote:
>
> | With recent tip, (parent: 15242:4da650457377), build now breaks consistently
> | in /src with:
> |
> |
> |
> |>  :
> |>  making octave-config.cc from ../../octave/src/octave-config.in.cc
> |>  g++ -shared-libgcc -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I. -I../../octave/src -I..
> |>  -I../../octave/src/../libinterp -I../libgnu -I../../octave/libgnu
> |>  -I/x/Programs/gplibs/include -I/x/Programs/OctaveLibs/include
> |>  -I/x/programs/GnuWin32/include -g -O2  -mieee-fp
> |>  -Ic:/Programs/gplibs/include/freetype2 -Ic:/Programs/gplibs/include
> |>  -IX:/Programs/gplibs/include
> |>  -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -Wpointer-arith
> |>  -Wwritestrings -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -g -O2  -MT octave-config.o -MD
> |>  -MP -MF .deps/octave-config.Tpo -c -o octave-config.o octave-config.cc
> |>  mv -f .deps/octave-config.Tpo .deps/octave-config.Po
> |>  make[2]: *** . No rule to make target `corefcn/libcorefcn.la', needed by
> |>  `octave-config.exe' Stop.
> |>  make[2]: Leaving directory `/home/Philip/octave/oct-3.7/src'
> |>  make[1]: *** [all-recursive] Error 1
> |>  make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Philip/octave/oct-3.7'
> |>  make: *** [all] Error 2
> |>
> |
> | Cloned fresh sources on my Linux box, transplanted them to my Windows
> | desktop, in MSYS ran . /autogen.sh
> |
> | What should I do now?
>
> Does this change fix the problem for you?
>
>    http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/b7f9d2c99a06
>
> You should only have to update and run make again.  You should not
> have to run autogen.sh or configure.

Yep that does it, thanks.
AFAICS the rest seems to go OK.

make check (& make -i check) doesn't run as "make" simply stops 
somewhere after or in the doc build stage.
make [-i] install doesn't produce an Octave excutable, essentially only 
octave_config_info and mkoctfile and a few .dlls.
I suspect it is something with doc building. Unfortunately I forgot to 
specify --enable-docs=no with configure yesterday so I think I just 
build again (no big deal now I know what fixes are needed, just put it 
to work and do other things).

FYI what I get is:

$ ./run-octave
/home/Philip/octdev/oct3.7/libtool: line 10108: 
/home/Philip/octdev/oct3.7/src/octave: No such file or directory
/home/Philip/octdev/oct3.7/libtool: line 10108: exec: 
/home/Philip/octdev/oct3.7/src/octave: cannot execute: No such file or 
directory

Philip