Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

Till Straumann <[email protected]> · Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:41:05 -0500

I'm not a macLib MSI expert but just used
the MSI tool to do db expansions. Once thing
I used to do a lot is use MSI for 'partial'
expansions where I leave some macros unexpanded.

I noticed that with 3.14.10 the behavior
of macExpandString() changed drastically
which breaks things for me.

Under 3.14.8.2

 echo 'unexpanded=${XXX}' | msi

produces

 unexpanded=${XXX}

on stdout and msi terminates without error.

Under 3.14.10 however, the same pipeline
produces

 on stdout:    unexpanded=$(XXX,undefined)

and

 on stderr:    input: unexpanded=${XXX}
                 which is in line 1 of file stdin

and terminates with an error.

Couldn't find anything in the release notes documenting
this rather drastic change.

How can I convince macLib/MSI that I want undefined
macros to be copied verbatim?

-- Till

Experimental Physics and Industrial Control System

Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System