> > what really is the motivation for keeping some of the tested binaries in the sourcetree when doing installcheck?
>
> As opposed to what? We're certainly not going to *install* regress.so,
> and I can't see requiring contrib to be there either. These are test
> files, not part of the installation-under-test.
That would've been my suggestion since I'd say they're both. But if that's not happening and nobody has a better idea, then workaround it is. I'll try to make
it as non-ugly as I can.
/Magnus