diff --git a/community/tree-sitter-kotlin/APKBUILD b/community/tree-sitter-kotlin/APKBUILD
index ce1863d1c6d..e57362f6f77 100644
--- a/community/tree-sitter-kotlin/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/tree-sitter-kotlin/APKBUILD
@@ -2,20 +2,24 @@
 # Maintainer: Matthias Ahouansou <matthias@ahouansou.cz>
 pkgname=tree-sitter-kotlin
 pkgver=0.3.8
-pkgrel=0
+pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="Kotlin grammar for Tree-Sitter"
 url="https://github.com/fwcd/tree-sitter-kotlin"
 arch="all"
 license="MIT"
 makedepends="tree-sitter-dev"
+checkdepends="tree-sitter-cli"
 install_if="tree-sitter-grammars"
 source="$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz::https://github.com/fwcd/tree-sitter-kotlin/archive/refs/tags/$pkgver.tar.gz"
-options="!check" # no tests for shared lib
 
 build() {
 	abuild-tree-sitter build
 }
 
+check() {
+	tree-sitter test
+}
+
 package() {
 	DESTDIR="$pkgdir" abuild-tree-sitter install
 }