[arch-general] docs in Octave package?

[Allan McRae]

On 16/07/11 14:09, XeCycle wrote:
> Auguste Pop<auguste at gmail.com>  writes:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:36 PM, XeCycle<xecycle at gmail.com>  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].
>


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