topic Re: macro compilation by SASATUOS in SAS Programming

macro compilation by SASATUOS

raja777pharma — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 01:48:44 GMT

Hello Team,

I am stuck with loading of macro ,which one is already located in another folder.

One of path ("/x/global/prod") have 20 macros are there and 2 macros are in another folder "Y/global/dev");

I need to first compile 20 macros and after compile 2 macros located in another folder .

Note: The 2 macros are in Dev folder are already in Prod folder , but i need to use 2 macros from dev folder because those ones are new one and i want use rest 18 macros from Prod folder.

when i use SASAUTOS option it's not compile 2 macros located in Dev folder and it's coming from Prod folder only

my code :

options mautosource sasautos=("x/global/prod" "y/global/dev" sasautos);

Thank you.

Re: macro compilation by SASATUOS

Shmuel — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 03:23:26 GMT

If only 2 out of the 20 macros are in DEV then assign option SASAUTOS so that DEV will be in priority:

options mautosource sasautos=("x/global/dev" "y/global/prod" sasautos);

if a macro is not in DEV sas will look in PROD, and if it is not neither there it will look for in in SASAUTOS.

A better way is, each debuged macro should be moved from DEV to PROD when upgrading is completed.

Re: macro compilation by SASATUOS

ChrisNZ — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 08:39:07 GMT

The first macro found is the one executed.

Put the DEV path first in the SASAUTOS path list.

Also, please correct the typo in the thread title.

Re: macro compilation by SASATUOS

Astounding — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 12:06:40 GMT

If both folders contain all 22 macros, you have a problem that SASAUTOS can't solve. You would need to use a combination of tools:

%include 'y/global/dev/first_dev_macro.sas';
%include 'y/global/dev/second_dev_macro.sas'
options sasautos=('x/global/prod' sasautos);

If the prod folder contains only 20 of the 22 macros, then your original approach is correct.

Re: macro compilation by SASATUOS

Ksharp — Wed, 26 Aug 2020 13:31:57 GMT

Also try append system optionlibname x v9 'c:\temp\';
options append=(sasautos=(x sasautos)) ;.