diff --git a/community-mysql.spec b/community-mysql.spec
index dd0dc2e..7311e87 100644
--- a/community-mysql.spec
+++ b/community-mysql.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 # Regression tests may take a long time (many cores recommended), skip them by 
 # passing --nocheck to rpmbuild or by setting runselftest to 0 if defining
 # --nocheck is not possible (e.g. in koji build)
-%{!?runselftest:%global runselftest 0}
+%{!?runselftest:%global runselftest 1}
 
 # set to 1 to enable
 %global with_shared_lib_major_hack 1