Moving/Using Postgres Binaries on multiple machines

If I want to create a postgres database on multiple machines, is the
practice of tarring or zipping up binaries compiled on one machine and
untarring them on another, and using the binaries (initdb etc) acceptable?.
This removes the need for having a compiler and environment on the target
machine, or is it necessary always to have such an environment on any
machine you intend to use postgres on? Postgres seems to have enough
environment options to allow this to work, overriding the original library
locations and paths etc from the original machine on which postgres was
compiled.

Does anyone see a problem with this approach?

Thanks!

Francis