installing Oracle Instantclient on Linux without setting environment variables?

Question

Oracle\'s instructions specify setting LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This makes my application dependent on random users\' configuration and is very troublesome to set up.

How can I

Answer 1

You could of course rename sqlplus to sqlplus.real and make a wrapper script:

#!/bin/sh

if [ "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" = "" ]
then
        LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/what/ever
else
        LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/what/ever
fi

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH

exec sqlplus.real ${1+"$@"}