Index: trunk/psModules/configure.ac
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--- trunk/psModules/configure.ac	(revision 11250)
+++ trunk/psModules/configure.ac	(revision 11253)
@@ -96,7 +96,28 @@
 
 dnl doxygen -------------------------------------------------------------------
-
-AC_CHECK_PROG([doxygen], [doxygen], [true], [false])
-AM_CONDITIONAL(DOXYGEN, test x$doxygen = xtrue)
+dnl doxygen doc generation is very, very slow so we're turing it off by default
+
+dnl save LIBS/CFLAGS/LDFLAGS
+TMP_LIBS=${LIBS}
+TMP_CFLAGS=${CFLAGS}
+TMP_LDFLAGS=${LDFLAGS}
+TMP_CPPFLAGS=${CPPFLAGS}
+
+AC_ARG_ENABLE(doxygen,
+  [AS_HELP_STRING(--enable-doxygen ,enable manpage generation)],
+  [AC_MSG_RESULT(doxygen enabled)
+    AC_PATH_PROG([DOXYGEN], [doxygen], [])
+  ],
+  [AC_MSG_RESULT([doxygen disabled])
+    doxygen=off
+  ]
+)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_DOXYGEN], test -n "$DOXYGEN" -a "x$doxygen" != "xoff")
+
+dnl restore the CFLAGS/LDFLAGS
+LIBS=${TMP_LIBS}
+CFLAGS=${TMP_CFLAGS}
+LDFLAGS=${TMP_LDFLAGS}
+CPPFLAGS=${TMP_CPPFLAGS}
 
 dnl ------------------------------------------------------------