Re: Octave 3.8.0-rc2 release candidate available for ftp

[John W. Eaton]

On 12/22/2013 01:45 PM, PhilipNienhuis wrote:

> Results: failed in install phase:
>
> :
> making main.cc from
> /home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-new/mxe-octdec13/tmp-octave/octave-3.8.0-rc2/src/main.in.cc
> i686-pc-mingw32-g++ -DHAVE_CONFIG_H -I.
> -I/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-new/mxe-octdec13/tmp-octave/octave-3.8.0-rc2/src
> -I..
> -I/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-new/mxe-octdec13/tmp-octave/octave-3.8.0-rc2/liboctave/array
> -I/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-new/mxe-octdec13/tmp-octave/octave-3.8.0-rc2/liboctave/cruft/misc
> -I/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-new/mxe-octdec13/tmp-octave/octave-3.8.0-rc2/liboctave/numeric
> -I/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-new/mxe-octdec13/tmp-octave/octave-3.8.0-rc2/liboctave/system
> -I/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-new/mxe-octdec13/tmp-octave/octave-3.8.0-rc2/liboctave/util
> -I/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-new/mxe-octdec13/tmp-octave/octave-3.8.0-rc2/libinterp
> -I../libinterp/corefcn
> -I/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-new/mxe-octdec13/tmp-octave/octave-3.8.0-rc2/libinterp/corefcn
> -I../libgnu
> -I/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-new/mxe-octdec13/tmp-octave/octave-3.8.0-rc2/libgnu
> -I/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-new/mxe-octdec13/tmp-octave/octave-3.8.0-rc2/libgui/src
> -I/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-new/mxe-octdec13/usr/i686-pc-mingw32/include
> -mieee-fp -Wall -W -Wshadow -Wold-style-cast -Wformat -Wpointer-arith
> -Wwrite-strings -Wcast-align -Wcast-qual -g -O2 -pthread -MT
> octave_gui-main-gui.o -MD -MP -MF .deps/octave_gui-main-gui.Tpo -c -o
> octave_gui-main-gui.o `test -f 'main-gui.cc' || echo
> '/home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-new/mxe-octdec13/tmp-octave/octave-3.8.0-rc2/src/'`main-gui.cc
> making mkoctfile.cc from
> /home/philip/devel/octdev/mxe-new/mxe-octdec13/tmp-octave/octave-3.8.0-rc2/src/mkoctfile.in.cc
> make[4]: *** No rule to make target `octave-cli', needed by
> `octave-cli-3.8.0-rc2'.  Stop.
> make[4]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....

Is this problem caused by not using a .exe file extension in the 
commands that make the links for the executable files that have the 
names with version info appended?  I'll try to diagnose and fix today 
unless someone beats me to it.

jwe