diff --git a/dev-libs/md4c/md4c-0.5.3.ebuild b/dev-libs/md4c/md4c-0.5.3.ebuild
index 179ce9fe5a83c..9b9a8635353bf 100644
--- a/dev-libs/md4c/md4c-0.5.3.ebuild
+++ b/dev-libs/md4c/md4c-0.5.3.ebuild
@@ -44,7 +44,6 @@ src_configure() {
 
 src_test() {
 	pushd "${BUILD_DIR}" || die
-	# Uses python internally
-	"${S}"/scripts/run-tests.sh || die
+	"${EPYTHON}" "${S}"/scripts/run-tests.py || die
 	popd
 }