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

[John W. Eaton]

On 28-Aug-2012, Philip Nienhuis wrote:

| > ../run-octave --norc --silent --no-history ../../octave/test/fntests.m
| > ../../octave/test
| > /home/Philip/octdev/oct-3.7/libtool: line 10108:
| > /home/Philip/octdev/oct-3.7/src/octave: No such file or directory
| > /home/Philip/octdev/oct-3.7/libtool: line 10108: exec:
| > /home/Philip/octdev/oct-3.7/src/octave: cannot execute: No such file or
| > directory
| > make[1]: *** [check] Error 126
| > make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/Philip/octdev/oct-3.7/test'
| > make: *** [check] Error 2
| 
| ....and here's the contents of <BUILDDIR>/src:
| 
| address@hidden ~/octdev/oct-3.7
| $ ls -l src
| total 3905
| -rw-r--r-- 1 Philip Administrators   96964 Aug 28 10:20 Makefile
| -rw-r--r-- 1 Philip Administrators   25765 Aug 28 12:54 mkoctfile.cc
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 Philip Administrators   28174 Aug 28 12:54 mkoctfile.exe
| -rw-r--r-- 1 Philip Administrators 2520069 Aug 28 12:54 mkoctfile.o
| -rw-r--r-- 1 Philip Administrators    8112 Aug 28 12:54 octave-config.cc
| -rwxr-xr-x 1 Philip Administrators   28686 Aug 28 12:54 octave-config.exe
| -rw-r--r-- 1 Philip Administrators 1286476 Aug 28 12:54 octave-config.o
| 
| 
| So, building of octave & octave-cli has simply been skipped w/o warning 
| (unless the stanzas:
|    Makefile:2632: warning: overriding commands for target `check'
|    Makefile:2214: warning: ignoring old commands for target `check'
| ...indicate something).
| I wouldn't know how to get any further here. Suggestions?

Oops.  I think the following changeset will fix that problem:

  http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/b241e69306a5

You should just need to update and run make again.  You should NOT
need to run autogen.sh or configure.

jwe