diff --git a/popt.spec b/popt.spec
index 44b3770..27e73b1 100644
--- a/popt.spec
+++ b/popt.spec
@@ -74,6 +74,9 @@ mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_sysconfdir}/popt.d
 %clean
 rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
+%check
+make check
+
 %post -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 %postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
@@ -99,6 +102,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 * Thu Aug 02 2012 Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@redhat.com> - 1.13-12
 - Hack poptBadOption() to return something semi-meaningful on exec alias
   failures (#697435, #710267)
+- Run internal test-suite on build, minimal as it might be
 
 * Sat Jul 21 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.13-11
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild