Re: [PATCH] pg_regress.c: Fix "make check" on Mac OS X: Pass DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH

Hi,

On 2023-06-05 22:33:16 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
> Julien Rouhaud <rjuju123(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> > On Mon, Jun 05, 2023 at 09:47:30AM -0400, Evan Jones wrote:
> >> This makes "make check" work on Mac OS X. Without this patch, on Mac OS X a
> >> default "./configure; make; make check" fails with errors like:
> >> ...
> >> The reason is that at some point, Mac OS X started removing the
> >> DYLD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable for "untrusted" executables [1]:
>
> > Note that this is a known issue
>
> Yeah. We have attempted to work around this before, but failed to find
> a solution without more downsides than upsides. I will be interested
> to look at this patch, but lack time for it right now. Anybody else?

FWIW, I have a patch, which I posted originally as part of the meson thread,
that makes the meson build work correctly even with SIP enabled. The trick is
basically to change the absolute references to libraries to relative ones.

Except for a small amount of complexity during install, I don't think this has
a whole lot of downsides. Making the install relocatable imo is pretty nice.

I guess I should repost that for 17...

Greetings,

Andres Freund