diff --git a/dev-libs/libmpack/libmpack-1.0.5.ebuild b/dev-libs/libmpack/libmpack-1.0.5.ebuild
index 479c92bd7b290..c31fbb838b6eb 100644
--- a/dev-libs/libmpack/libmpack-1.0.5.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/libmpack/libmpack-1.0.5.ebuild
@@ -38,6 +38,10 @@ src_compile() {
 	emake "${myemakeargs[@]}" lib-bin
 }
 
+src_test() {
+	emake XLDFLAGS="-shared" test
+}
+
 src_install() {
 	local myemakeargs=(
 		"PREFIX=/usr"