Re: complie error of f77-extern.cc on development source (Mecurial) under MinGW

[Rik]

> I have tried to build the development source on MinGW (gcc-4.4.0 MiGW 
> Official).
>
> CHangeLog
> 2009-12-20  Rik <address@hidden>
>
>       * acinclude.m4: use M4 quoting for arguments to autoconf macros
>
>
> I have met a complie error in f77-extern.cc.
>
> In file included from ../../../hg/octave-work/libcruft/misc/f77-extern.cc:25:
> ../config.h:1481: error: declaration does not declare anything
>
> 1480: #if !defined(HAVE_NLINK_T)
> 1481: typedef short nlink_t;
> 1482: #endif
>
> HMMM? What is wrong?
>   
I can't say.  It seems to be objecting to 'typedef short nlink_t;' which
is legal code. 

I would suggest cleaning everything with 'make maintainer-clean' and
then running 'autogen.sh' again.

--Rik