Re: Beginner question: Hacking environment?

Hi,

On Tuesday 08 March 2011 15.39:56 Kevin Grittner wrote:

> http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/Developer_FAQ

thanks

> If you still have questions, be sure to mention your OS.

Sorry, forgot.  Linux.

The "Basic system testing" item is where I'm kinda stuck. You advise to 
"perform run time testing via psql." Which is a bit short, since obviously 
psql can't be directly started since there is no installation...

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, ... 

Or do you advise to just "make install" and test from there?

thanks
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