diff --git a/fuzzing/meson.build b/fuzzing/meson.build
index e39ecdce5..cd1e4c762 100644
--- a/fuzzing/meson.build
+++ b/fuzzing/meson.build
@@ -67,7 +67,7 @@ foreach target_name : fuzz_targets
   # If the FuzzingEngine isn’t available, build some unit tests to check that
   # the fuzzing files do basically work. This doesn’t do any actual fuzzing though.
   # Pass in the README as an arbitrary fuzzing input, just so we have something.
-  if not have_fuzzing_engine
+  if build_tests and not have_fuzzing_engine
     test(target_name, exe,
       args : files('README.md'),
       suite : 'fuzzing',