There is an updated pull request by tornaria against master on the void-packages repository https://github.com/tornaria/void-packages octave https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/40720 octave: update to 7.3.0. - Fix cross build - Use SuiteSparse - Use rapidjson - Use --disable-docs to skip building docs, instead install the docs in the tarball. This way we don't need texlive/texinfo/gnuplot to build. - Avoid warnings due to egrep deprecation - xlint fixes #### Testing the changes - I tested the changes in this PR: **briefly** --- I wonder if we really want all those build options. I am tempted to remove almost all of them. I also wonder if the choice of `GraphicsMagick` over `ImageMagick` is the best one. NOTE: this PR includes #39846 for the current SuiteSparse. Could work with the current SuiteSparse, but I didn't try (#39846 is ready to merge IMO; the CI failures in that PR are addressed in the comments) A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/40720.patch is attached