Re: [Doxygen-users] Overriding configuration options from command line

[Dimitri v. H. <di...@st...>]

On Thu, Aug 14, 2003 at 08:22:48PM -0700, Uwe Behrens wrote:
> Greetings!
> 
> I wonder whether it is possible to selectively override certain options in a configuration file from the command line.  In particular, I have a configuration file 'config.dox' that contains the line:
> 
> 	QUIET = NO
> 
> giving me plenty of feedback when used like this:
> 
> 	% doxygen config.dox
> 
> Sometimes, however I don't want all this output.  What I want is to be able to suppress the output, without affecting anything else in the configuration file.  Thus, rather than having a second configuration file that is identical to 'config.dox' but with 'QUIET = YES' (and the associated problems of keeping the two files in sync), I'd prefer something like:
> 
> 	% doxygen -c "QUIET = YES" config.dox
> 
> where the '-c' option tells doxygen to use the next argument as a 'configuration override' for whatever is specified in 'config.dox'.
> 
> Is that possible?  I searched the manual but couldn't find anything referring to this.  If it's currently not possible, can it be added?  

There is no -c like option, but on Linux/Unix/Cygwin you could do:

(cat config.dox ; echo "QUIET=YES") | doxygen -

to get the same effect. 

You can also use "@INCLUDE = generic.cfg", to include a generic config 
file from a more specific one.

Regards,
  Dimitri