diff --git a/internal/rosa/wayland.go b/internal/rosa/wayland.go
index a9e4ada..a888df3 100644
--- a/internal/rosa/wayland.go
+++ b/internal/rosa/wayland.go
@@ -18,6 +18,10 @@ func (t Toolchain) newWayland() pkg.Artifact {
 		t.Load(Libexpat),
 		t.Load(Libxml2),
 	}, nil, nil, `
+cd /usr/src/wayland
+chmod +w tests tests/sanity-test.c
+echo 'int main(){}' > tests/sanity-test.c
+
 cd "$(mktemp -d)"
 meson setup \
 	--reconfigure \
@@ -25,11 +29,13 @@ meson setup \
 	--prefix=/system \
 	--prefer-static \
 	-Ddocumentation=false \
+	-Dtests=true \
 	. /usr/src/wayland
 meson compile
+meson test
 meson install \
 	--destdir=/work
-`, pkg.Path(AbsUsrSrc.Append("wayland"), false, pkg.NewHTTPGetTar(
+`, pkg.Path(AbsUsrSrc.Append("wayland"), true, pkg.NewHTTPGetTar(
 		nil, "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/wayland/"+
 			"-/archive/"+version+"/wayland-"+version+".tar.bz2",
 		mustDecode(checksum),