[arch-general] docs in Octave package?
Hello, I read from the package database that Ronald van Haren maintains the package "octave", but I cannot contact him, so I'm asking here. 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. Could you please build a separate "octave-docs" package? -- 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
On 07/15/2011 05:36 PM, XeCycle wrote:
It will be nice if you post a patch to include this docs in the octave package or in a separate package. Imo if the docs use less than 50% from the size, then is fine to include it in the octave package. -- Ionuț
Ionut Biru <ibiru@archlinux.org> writes:
How? I'd like to build it in a separate package.
Imo if the docs use less than 50% from the size, then is fine to include it in the octave package.
It appears to me that the original package is 8 MB, and the modified is 15 MB. Perhaps a bit large. -- 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
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:36 PM, XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com> wrote:
./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?
Auguste Pop <auguste@gmail.com> writes:
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
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:09 PM, XeCycle <xecycle@gmail.com> wrote:
the PKGBUILD of octave does not contain anything like --disable-docs. if the documentations are not installed by make install, it's an UPSTREAM FEATURE.
you are re-compiling the whole octave again with the docs, that's not what i said. if you are only interested in adding docs, you can package docs separately. if you want pdf docs, you can make pdf && make install-pdf, or html docs, make html && make install-html. both would take less than a minute to complete.
putting a separate docs package in aur means you don't have to endure the long, tedious, and meaningless re-compiling process, which you complained about, every time the package got updated. what you get is a slightly outdated documentation package, which you can easily update automatically alongside the repo octave package, if you are willing to. actually, even manually doing so would take you no more than five minutes. anyway, if you want a package to include a change you propose, the best way is to show up with a working PKGBUILD. best regards,
On 16/07/11 14:09, XeCycle wrote:
The point was that you probably do not actually have to build octave to build the docs. Anyway, requests on the mailing lists will probably not get seen by the right person. File a feature request on the bug tracker. Allan
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Allan McRae
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Auguste Pop
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Ionut Biru
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XeCycle