From: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: wefraser@yahoo.com
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Subject: Re: regression tests require some file(s) to be installed first.
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PG Doc comments form <noreply@postgresql.org> writes:
> I used all of the defaults and steps 1 and 2 looked good, but when tried to
> run the regression tests in step 3, the database failed to load with the
> following error in
> "/Users/bfraser/tools/postgresql-14.5/src/test/regress/log/initdb.log":
> dyld: Library not loaded: /usr/local/pgsql/lib/libpq.5.dylib

> After I ran step 4 (make install), the regression test worked perfectly.

Yeah, thanks to some dubious "security" restrictions in macOS,
make check doesn't work unless you first do make install.
(Basically, they've lobotomized DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH, so that
the executables will only look for libraries in the configured
installation library directory :-(.  It's far from clear to me
why that's of any security value when they still let you change
PATH, but I don't work there.)

This is documented in the macOS-specific installation notes.

			regards, tom lane