Thanks, I get it.
There is no way to prevent the project location variable from being prepended. Right now CCS assumes that all variables are a path since the variable in the ini file is used for linked resource path variable (which has to be an absolute path) in addition to a build variable. I suppose work can be done so that it doesn't automatically prepend the variable. But before I make that request, I'd like to understand your use case for using macros.ini files. Usage of that file for a project import is being obsoleted in favor of simply setting your variables in the project properties from the start. That is the recommended way of doing it. Why are macros.ini files still needed in your case?
Thanks
ki