Re: Doxygen + Autotools integration

[John Calcote]

Stefano D'Angelo wrote:
> 2008/10/3 Stefano D'Angelo <address@hidden>:
>   
>> 2008/10/2 John Calcote <address@hidden>:
>>     
>>> You may wish to check out my book on Autotools, hosted by Free Software
>>> Magazine. In there, I make several references to doxygen, and use code
>>> snippets to implement doxygen targets within the sample projects and
>>> examples provided in the book.
>>>
>>> http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/books/autotools_a_guide_to_autoconf_automake_libtool
>>>       
>> Well... at first sight the whole thing seems a bit "simplicistic" to
>> me, maybe also because I'm generating html, ps, pdf, dvi and man
>> output with Doxygen. I'll give it a better look tomorrow maybe.
>>     
>
> Ok, read it. I have to congratulate with you for the manual, which
> looks way better than the "autobook" (and less outdated of course),
> but as said, the proposed solution wouldn't satisfy my needs.
>
> Other than that, I think you could have used AC_CHECK_PROG instead of
> AC_CHECK_PROGS to look for the doxygen binary, since it already does
> the -z test on the variable used to store its path, thus you wouldn't
> need the AC_PROG_TRY_DOXYGEN macro.
Stefano,

I apologize for my lack of communication here. I didn't mean to ever
imply that my solution was the best one out there. I was simply giving
you some more resources to look at for building your generic doxygen
solution. I only hope it was helpful.

Cheers,
John