Re: Regression tests versus the buildfarm environment

On 08/12/2010 08:43 AM, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On ons, 2010-08-11 at 15:06 -0400, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>> You original email said:
>>
>> For some historic reasons, I have my local scripts set up so
>> that they build development instances using the hardcoded port
>> 65432.
>>
>> I think my response would be "Don't do that".
> Do you have a concrete suggestion for a different way to handle it?
>
>

Well, I do all my builds under a common directory, and my setup shell
script has stuff like this to choose a port:

for port in `seq -w 5701 5799` ; do
grep -q -- "--with-pgport=$port" $base/*/config.log || break
done

It's worked fairly well for me for about five years now. No doubt there
could be many variations on this theme.

cheers

andrew