diff --git a/test/cmdlineargs.jl b/test/cmdlineargs.jl
index 52725fe8f6e77..1a7890c83e1f6 100644
--- a/test/cmdlineargs.jl
+++ b/test/cmdlineargs.jl
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # This file is a part of Julia. License is MIT: http://julialang.org/license
 
-let exename = joinpath(JULIA_HOME, Base.julia_exename())
+let exename = `$(joinpath(JULIA_HOME, Base.julia_exename())) --precompiled=yes`
     # --version
     let v = split(readall(`$exename -v`), "julia version ")[end]
         @test Base.VERSION_STRING == chomp(v)