[Click] click include feature

[Eddie Kohler]

Hi Falk,

cpp file.click | clicky -

Eddie


Falk Schaefer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am wondering about the possibility to use the "#include" syntax.
> I have source from a previous project based on click 1.5 and I want to display the .click file in clicky. How can I use the gcc preprocessor?
> 
> Regards,
> Falk
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 18 Mar 2009, at 19:52, Christian Kreibich wrote:
> 
>> I was wondering whether there is some sort of include feature provided
>> in the configuration language that lets one include config files into
>> other config files. For packages, there's require(), but I could not
>> locate such a feature for config files. The resulting redundancy in my
>> configurations is one of my biggest grievances about Click. Thanks for
>> any pointers...
> 
> 
> This is almost a FAQ on this mailinglist, but still it is an open  
> question...
> 
> One thing you can already do is use compound elements to prevent  
> redundancy, this works very well and gives you good results.
> Another thing you can do is include other files with a C-style  
> #include and use the gcc preprocessor, this also works quite well.
> Support for including other files in the language itself is currently  
> not available. Probably the most logical path to do this is  
> implementing an include phase before all parsing of the configure  
> file. I guess no one here would object to a patch to do this :-)
> 
> Regards,
> Bart Braem