diff --git a/.github/workflows/dev-short-tests.yml b/.github/workflows/dev-short-tests.yml
index da35ec675..227b01a0c 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dev-short-tests.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dev-short-tests.yml
@@ -170,7 +170,6 @@ jobs:
     - uses: actions/checkout@11bd71901bbe5b1630ceea73d27597364c9af683 # tag=v4.2.2
     - name: LZ4, thread pool, and libs build testslib wrapper test
       run: |
-        make lz4install
         make -C tests test-lz4
         make check < /dev/null | tee   # mess with lz4 console detection
         make clean
diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index e8e6bcffe..c9a640cba 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ apt-add-repo:
 	sudo add-apt-repository -y ppa:ubuntu-toolchain-r/test
 	sudo apt-get update -y -qq
 
-.PHONY: ppcinstall arminstall valgrindinstall libc6install gcc6install gcc7install gcc8install gpp6install clang38install lz4install
+.PHONY: ppcinstall arminstall valgrindinstall libc6install gcc6install gcc7install gcc8install gpp6install clang38install
 ppcinstall:
 	APT_PACKAGES="qemu-system-ppc qemu-user-static gcc-powerpc-linux-gnu" $(MAKE) apt-install
 
@@ -379,10 +379,6 @@ gpp6install: apt-add-repo
 clang38install:
 	APT_PACKAGES="clang-3.8" $(MAKE) apt-install
 
-# Ubuntu 14.04 ships a too-old lz4
-lz4install:
-	[ -e lz4 ] || git clone https://github.com/lz4/lz4 && sudo $(MAKE) -C lz4 install
-
 endif
 
 
diff --git a/tests/Makefile b/tests/Makefile
index b96986cae..643f8cd61 100644
--- a/tests/Makefile
+++ b/tests/Makefile
@@ -447,9 +447,9 @@ test-decodecorpus-cli: decodecorpus
 test-pool: poolTests
 	$(QEMU_SYS) ./poolTests
 
-test-lz4: ZSTD = LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib $(PRGDIR)/zstd
-test-lz4: ZSTD_LZ4 = LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib ./lz4
-test-lz4: ZSTD_UNLZ4 = LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib ./unlz4
+test-lz4: ZSTD = $(PRGDIR)/zstd
+test-lz4: ZSTD_LZ4 = ./lz4
+test-lz4: ZSTD_UNLZ4 = ./unlz4
 test-lz4: zstd decodecorpus datagen
 	[ -f lz4 ] || ln -s $(PRGDIR)/zstd lz4
 	[ -f unlz4 ] || ln -s $(PRGDIR)/zstd unlz4