Re: [exim] Macros in include files

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015, Robert Blayzor wrote:

> On Jan 22, 2015, at 11:15 AM, Jeremy Harris <jgh@???> wrote:
> >
> > Interesting question. There's not a testcase in the testsuite for
> > that as far as I can see, but from a glance around the source you
> > ought to be able to define macros within an included file.
> >
> > Unfortunately there's not any debug output on a new macro definition.
> >
> > Is this what you're asking? Or are you asking about expansion of
> > macros?
>
>
> Well yes. The documentation says macro expansion happens BEFORE include
> files are pulled in. I would read that as if include file has a macro
> they won't be processed. I guess it's an order of operations thing.

I have a .include statement for a file whose contents defines macros,
which are used later on in the config.

The included file does not try and use any macros itself, don't think I
have ever tried that.

However, the .include statement itself does make use of a macro, so
clearly that parsing has already happened at the top level.

.include EXIMDIR/hostconfig.thishost

I guess you'd need another pass of macro parsing after doing includes, and
if there is nesting going on that could get fun.

Jethro.

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