User profile not calling setup or envsetup

mercenthus · Post by **mercenthus** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:02 am

Hi,

Will it our application have any problems if the .profile of the user that mercator uses to execute does not call the mercator "setup" or bin/envsetup? I discovered we don't have this call in the .profile, but the application has been running fine for about a year now.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:27 am

Welcome aboard. You appear to have answered your own question.

Whether that answer generalizes to all things that you might wish to do with TX is another question entirely.

mercenthus · Post by **mercenthus** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:31 am

Hi Ray,

Do you mean that it doesn't really matter that $MERC_HOME_DIR and $MERC_TMP_DIR are not set? We have a value for $LD_LIBRARY_PATH though.

ray.wurlod · Post by **ray.wurlod** » Fri Jul 25, 2008 4:35 am

Yes, and you have a value for PATH. That and LD_LIBRARY_PATH are fundamental to most applications, not just TX. There will be default values for both MERC_HOME_DIR and MERC_TEMP_DIR if they are not set; you can doubtless find out what they are from the manuals (I am in an airport lounge without access to any manuals at the moment).