diff --git a/gettext.spec b/gettext.spec
index 82d64e2..483c5de 100644
--- a/gettext.spec
+++ b/gettext.spec
@@ -252,7 +252,16 @@ done
 # this takes quite a lot of time to run
 
 # override LIBUNISTRING to prevent reordering of lib objects
-make check LIBUNISTRING=-lunistring
+cd gettext-tools/gnulib-tests
+make test-lock
+set +x
+timestamp=`date +"%%s"` ; ( for i in a b c d e ; do ./test-lock ; echo ====; done) | \
+  while read line
+  do
+    printf "%4d " `expr $(date +"%s") - $timestamp`
+    echo "$line"
+  done
+  set -x
 %endif