Auguste Pop <auguste@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. I used to remove the "--disable-docs" in the ./configure parameters. > as a matter of fact, most of the time you spent would be in the > configure stage. Not really... At least it's not the case with octave. It used to take more than one hour (on my Intel Core i5 430M); with "make -j4" it's faster, but the CPU temperature shows 100 degrees Celsius. > have you tried to make an independent aur package for yourself? Does that make a difference? Still I have to build it myself, and I'm asking if we can build a docs package in [extra]. -- Carl Lei (XeCycle) Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591
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