[Modules] Fwd: question regarding env var manipulation

[Nancy E. D. <ne...@fa...>]

On Thu, 10 Oct 2002 21:12:01 UT, "Nancy E. Davis" <ne...@fa...>
said:
> Hi Modules-interest,
> 
> I am working with modules version 3.1.6 on Tru64 Unix, Tcl 8.4a1.
> I want to evaluate a users env var and use the module file to manipulate
> it.  The env var in question is a space delimited list of compiler
> options, 
> i.e., 
> 
> me@host> echo $DEC_CC
> -L/usr/local/lib -L/var/shlib |
> 
> When a user loads a particular module, I want to evaluate if they have
> DEC_CC
> set, what it is set to, and make certain more paths are included.  When
> said
> user unloads a module, I want to recall the previous env var and give
> them
> back what they had.
> 
> Is this possible?  I'm having trouble getting the env var out of the
> users 
> environment in any form.  If this isn't possible, can I source a script
> at
> the end of the modulefile to do this?
> 
> Thanks for any insight you can provide.  If further info is needed, it
> will be
> gladly supplied.
> 
> Nancy Davis