xymond_alert errors when hosts.cfg uses directory includes

[Rothlisberger, John R.]

A valid option for hosts.cfg is to use a directory tag which includes all files in that directory and sub directories.

It works as far as the webpage is concerned and monitoring in general - but, when it comes to xymond_alert it is not happy that the client is not in the hosts.cfg file itself.
xymon at tc3mon:~/xymon-4.3.30/xymond$ xymond_alert --test client test
2019-12-04 14:44:50.906606 Host not found in hosts.cfg - assuming it is on the top page
00095241 2019-12-04 14:44:50 send_alert client:test state Paging
Checking criteria for host 'client', which is not yet defined; some alerts may not immediately fire
00095241 2019-12-04 14:44:50 Matching host:service:dgroup:page 'client:test:(NULL):' against rule line 11
...
00095241 2019-12-04 14:44:50 *** Match with 'SERVICE=test COLOR=red EXPAGE=%.*PAGE1' ***
00095241 2019-12-04 14:44:50 Script alert with command '/home/xymon/server/ext/pg/exalert_SSLHEADERS' and recipient headers_alert

It does eventually match the rule for the service but the errors generated end up polluting xymonlaunch.log and it grows at a crazy pace.

In xymond_alert.c - the client is only searched for in the hosts.cfg file and does not include any valid include directories or files.
Xymond_alert.c:
                        load_hostnames(xgetenv("HOSTSCFG"), NULL, get_fqdn());
                        hinfo = hostinfo(testhost);
                        if (hinfo) {
                                testpage = strdup(xmh_item(hinfo, XMH_ALLPAGEPATHS));
                        }
                        else {
                                errprintf("Host not found in hosts.cfg - assuming it is on the top page\n");
                                testpage = "";
                        }

Any chance of getting this fixed in the next version?
Thanks,
John
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