Re: [Doxygen-users] generic variable for output directory

[Stefan N. <ste...@at...>]

On 7/2/2008 10:37 AM, Peter Schöll wrote:
> Hi,
> if it is really needed to compose the path within the command line, you could e.g. write in Doxyfile:
>     OUTPUT_DIRECTORY="$(MY_OUT_DIR)"
> and call doxygen this way:
>     cat Doxyfile | MY_OUT_DIR="$ENV1/$ENV2" doxygen -

Huh?

Why not simply

  MY_OUT_DIR="$ENV1/$ENV2" doxygen Doxyfile

??

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> which could avoid a lot of shell related trouble.
> (But do not forget the double quotes to avoid problems with some characters in $ENV1 and $ENV2, e.g. white space characters.)
> 
> Good luck,
>     Peter
> 


Regards,
     Stefan
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