On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 10:36 PM, XeCycle <xecy...@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.
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?