On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:36 PM, XeCycle <xecycle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I need the documents of octave, but it's not in the current octave > package, so I need to compile it manually after each update. However > the compilation is very time and power consuming, it can drive my CPU to > 100 degrees --- which is not very fine for a laptop. > ./configure && make pdf && make install-pdf would be quite fast. as a matter of fact, most of the time you spent would be in the configure stage. have you tried to make an independent aur package for yourself?