Re: shell script lesson needed regarding oraenv script

On Sat, 20 Nov 2004 00:54:12 +0100, Sybrand Bakker <sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl> wrote:

>On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 15:35:49 -0600, Ed Stevens <nospam_at_noway.nohow>
>wrote:
>
>>The second thing the function does over and above oraenv is set the
>>environment for LIB_PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH, and LD_LIBRARY_PATH_64.
>>I've never paid much attention to these so am wondering if this is any
>>real value or just over-engineering by the vendor.
>
>
>Try unsetting these, and be prepared for unpleasant surprises!!!
>Those env vars are needed to resolve calls to dynamic libraries (just
>like Windows has DLLs, actually the dynamic shared library concept is
>way older than the DLL concept)

Understood. So, given a system with multiple version multiple oracle homes, how does one easily keep these environment settings straight since 'oranev' doesn't address them? Am I overlooking the obvious? Received on Mon Nov 22 2004 - 10:57:45 CST