[Doxygen-users] Linking to external documentation / Excluding symbolic links automatically

[Alexander L. <li...@we...>]

Hello,

i have two questions concerning the output of doxygen:

1.)  i would like to link to several external packages which are used in
our project. i generated tagfiles and included them in the doxygen
configuration for our project. this works fine - doxygen creates links
to all used external symbols at the individual places in the source
code.
now i would like to link to the complete standalone doxygen
documentation for that external packages from the mainpage of our
project (or from some other point). (later i would like to integrate a
link to our
CVS repository using CVSWeb). i tried to achieve this by adding a
htmlonly <A HREF=PATH_TO_PACKAGE/html/index.html /A> on our mainpage.
the link is created but following that link will create
a second treeview on my page, so i have one for our project and a second
for the external package.
is there a way of linking to that page without creating a new treeview?

2.) since we develop on unix we are using symbolic links. it seems that
doxygen gets confused when following a symbolic link to generate docs
for it. at least it will be added twice to the file list and generating
"man" output will end up with an error that doxygen is unable to open a
special man-file for writing.
example: if i configured ./project/man as output path for man docs.
doxygen appends the relative path of the link to the man output path ...

is there a way to prevent doxygen from following symbolic links besides
using the EXCLUDE_* options in the config file? i do not necessarily
want to add all exclusions manually ...

thanks in advance
alex