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

[John W. Eaton]

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.

jwe