diff --git a/lynx.spec b/lynx.spec
index dc8493f..3424972 100644
--- a/lynx.spec
+++ b/lynx.spec
@@ -99,6 +99,9 @@ perl -pi -e 's,^STARTFILE:.*,STARTFILE:file:/usr/share/doc/HTML/en-US/index.html
 
 make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
+# remove zero-length tests files to silence rpmlint
+rm -fv test/X test/nobody
+
 %install
 chmod -x samples/mailto-form.pl
 make install DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
@@ -126,6 +129,7 @@ EOF
 %changelog
 * Sat Feb 06 2016 Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> - 2.8.9-0.11.dev6
 - avoid using rpath for the lynx executable
+- remove zero-length tests files to silence rpmlint
 
 * Thu Feb 04 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.8.9-0.10.dev6
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_24_Mass_Rebuild