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Re: Beginner question: Hacking environment?

Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>

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From: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>
To: Adrian von Bidder <avbidder@fortytwo.ch>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org, Kevin Grittner <Kevin.Grittner@wicourts.gov>
Date: 2011-03-08T17:02:13Z
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On tis, 2011-03-08 at 16:17 +0100, Adrian von Bidder wrote:
> Aagain, my question: are there wrappers/helpers to do this easily from
> the source/compile tree? Like: set up PATH, LD_LIBRARY_PATH,
> PG_WHATEVER, call initdb, ... 

Many developers have their own wrapper scripts, mainly to handle dealing
with multiple versions or branches.  But just to build and test one
version you don't need to set any environment variables.