Hello, This is not a bug pe
 

Hello,

This is not a bug per se, just a little suggestion for improvement.

When switching between different versions of OpenFOAM from the same active shell, let's say switching to OpenFOAM 1.4.1 from a shell previously initialized for OpenFOAM 1.3, the directories pointed by the "old" values of FOAM_USER_APPBIN and FOAM_USER_LIBBIN will not get cleaned up from the environment variables PATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH when sourcing the "new" environment (sourcing the new $WM_PROJECT_DIR/$FOAM_DOT_DIR/bashrc or cshrc).

Here is the small modification we did to our copy of the file $WM_PROJECT_DIR/$FOAM_DOT_DIR/bashrc in order to correct this. The new instructions are in blue.

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#- Clean path/PATH. Remove anything under top-level foam directory.
cleanPath=`$cleanProg "$PATH" "$WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR"`
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
PATH="$cleanPath"
fi

#- Clean LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`$cleanProg "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" "$WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR"`

#- Clean MANPATH
export MANPATH=`$cleanProg "$MANPATH" "$WM_PROJECT_INST_DIR"`


#- Clean everything that looks a bit too much like an old $FOAM_USER_APPBIN from PATH
cleanPath=`$cleanProg "$PATH" "$HOME/$WM_PROJECT/$LOGNAME"`
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
PATH="$cleanPath"
fi

#- Clean everything that looks a bit too much like an old $FOAM_USER_LIBBIN from LD_LIBRARY_PATH
export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`$cleanProg "$LD_LIBRARY_PATH" "$HOME/$WM_PROJECT/$LOGNAME"`


# FOAM: set-up FOAM release-specific environment
# ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
SOURCE(){
foamDotFile=$1
. $1
foamDotFile=
}
SOURCE $WM_PROJECT_DIR/.bashrc


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A similar modification could be applied to the file $WM_PROJECT_DIR/$FOAM_DOT_DIR/cshrc as well.

Martin

Good suggestion, I will put it
 

Good suggestion, I will put it in and also the equivalent in cshrc.

Thanks

Henry