static Octave still possible?

[Rik]

All,

While working on profiling I tried to compile a static version of Octave
configured with "--enable-static --disable-shared".

This fails with

 GEN      libinterp/dldfcn/__delaunayn__.oct
/usr/bin/install: omitting directory 'libinterp/dldfcn/.libs/'
Makefile:27220: recipe for target 'libinterp/dldfcn/__delaunayn__.oct' failed

Is a static version of Octave even possible anymore?  If not, can we just
remove the option which would simplify configure.ac quite a bit as well.

--Rik