diff --git a/srcpkgs/pkg-config/template b/srcpkgs/pkg-config/template
index 90fbc8b8756..b71782758dc 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/pkg-config/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/pkg-config/template
@@ -13,3 +13,7 @@ homepage="http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/wiki/"
 license="GPL-2"
 distfiles="http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/releases/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=6fc69c01688c9458a57eb9a1664c9aba372ccda420a02bf4429fe610e7e7d591
+
+do_check() {
+	make check
+}