Hi Jürgen: Thanks for your reply. That’s just not the way things work in macOS. Never has been.
Of the 71 apps in my Application folder, (and not including the sub-folder named Utilities), there are only 1 or 2 that appear from bash find, or which. (Xcode is one of them because it does have a command line interface.) Of course I had also thought of the 2 alternatives you suggested. Just an added step to installing GNU APL on Mac. I will add an appropriate para in my document. respect…. Peter > On Aug 7, 2017, at 4:16 PM, Juergen Sauermann <juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de> > wrote: > > Hi Peter, > > I believe if a program (here: Doxygen) installs itself in a place where a > shell does not find > it then that is a fault in the installation of that program. Fixing this in a > GNU APL Makefile > would be the wrong place. There are probably two easier workarounds: > > 1. add /Applications/Doxygen.app/Contents/Resources/ to the shell's $PATH (or > whatever the name is on Mac), or > 2. put a symlink to doxygen in one of the directories mentioned in $PATH > > Thanks in advance for updating the APL on Mac document. > > Best Regards, > /// Jürgen > > > On 08/07/2017 10:03 PM, Peter Teeson wrote: >> Hi Jürgen: >> Yes I knew you had no Mac <grin>. (Using VirtualBox I run Debian just for >> fun..) >> >> Gandalf:~ pteeson$ cd /Volumes/Data/Development/MyProjects/GNUAPLWS/apl-svn >> Gandalf:apl-svn pteeson$ make DOXY >> doxygen >> make: doxygen: No such file or directory >> make: *** [DOXY] Error 1 >> >> As a test in Terminal I manually executed doxygen this way >> /Applications/Doxygen.app/Contents/Resources/doxygen >> >> (Note the capital D for the app and the lowercase d for the executable.) >> >> The shell doesn’t know where the app named Doxygen is located, in my case in >> the Applications folder. >> Furthermore it also doesn’t know that the Doxygen app contains within it the >> actual doxygen executable. >> >> The Doxygen downloads page makes it pretty clear that either one downloads >> the .dmg for Mac or else >> manually builds and installs the doxygen executable. >> >> What do you think about some scripting in make DOXY to detect if we are on a >> Mac and asking where to >> find the Doxygen app and then executing it? Or something like that? >> >> Frankly I don’t think it's much of an issue as I have never seen any >> comments about it on this list. >> However I will make a note in the APL on Macintosh document. >> >> respect….. >> >> Peter >>> On Aug 7, 2017, at 12:12 PM, Juergen Sauermann >>> <juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de <mailto:juergen.sauerm...@t-online.de>> >>> wrote: >>> >>> Hi Peter, >>> >>> it is difficult for me to do that because I have no access to a Mac >>> computer. >>> >>> I would assume that the place where Doxygen is installed does not matter as >>> long as your shell >>> can find it. The only other thing that Doxygen cares about (speaking for >>> the Ubuntu version) is where >>> the config file is located (one can specify that file on the command line >>> that invokes doxygen). >>> >>> So it would be good to know if your make DOXY fails because the doxygen >>> command itself was not >>> found, or because the doxygen command could not find its config file (which >>> is normally ./Doxyfile) >>> >>> Best Regards, >>> /// Jürgen >>> >>> >>> >>> On 08/07/2017 04:05 AM, Peter Teeson wrote: >>>> Hi Jürgen: >>>> If you are working with Make please look at Make DOXY >>>> which doesn’t work on Mac (in my case but maybe others as well) >>>> >>>> On Macintosh there is a Doxygen download from their site. >>>> <http://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/download.html >>>> <http://www.stack.nl/%7Edimitri/doxygen/download.html>> >>>> "Doxygen-1.8.13.dmg (54.6MB) ( ftp >>>> <ftp://ftp.stack.nl/pub/users/dimitri/Doxygen-1.8.13.dmg> | http >>>> <http://ftp.stack.nl/pub/users/dimitri/Doxygen-1.8.13.dmg> ) >>>> This is a self-contained disk image, which contains the GUI frontend. >>>> The binaries support the whole range of Intel CPUs (both 32 and 64 bit). >>>> “ >>>> >>>> Basically there is a GUI front end for configuration and then a button to >>>> run doxygen which is included in the app. >>>> On Mac one opens the .dmg and drags the app somewhere, usually the >>>> Application folder/directory. >>>> And then launches the app, perhaps by making it available from the dock… >>>> >>>> To use the present Make file one would have to install doxygen itself >>>> somewhere, /usr/local/bin or some such place. >>>> >>>> It would be interesting to know what other Mac users do, but I use the >>>> “official” one as per above…. >>>> >>>> respect…. >>>> >>>> Peter >>> >> >
