diff --git a/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt b/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
index a015f96ae51d8..0286e0d6c4d90 100644
--- a/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
+++ b/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
@@ -114,7 +114,6 @@ run-make/libtest-json/Makefile
 run-make/libtest-junit/Makefile
 run-make/libtest-padding/Makefile
 run-make/libtest-thread-limit/Makefile
-run-make/link-arg/Makefile
 run-make/link-args-order/Makefile
 run-make/link-cfg/Makefile
 run-make/link-dedup/Makefile
diff --git a/tests/run-make/link-arg/Makefile b/tests/run-make/link-arg/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 103527c3e14d9..0000000000000
--- a/tests/run-make/link-arg/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-include ../tools.mk
-RUSTC_FLAGS = -C link-arg="-lfoo" -C link-arg="-lbar" --print link-args
-
-all:
-	$(RUSTC) $(RUSTC_FLAGS) empty.rs | $(CGREP) lfoo lbar
diff --git a/tests/run-make/link-arg/rmake.rs b/tests/run-make/link-arg/rmake.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9b53047dca95f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/run-make/link-arg/rmake.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+use run_make_support::{rustc, tmp_dir};
+
+fn main() {
+    let out = rustc()
+        .link_arg("-lfoo")
+        .link_arg("-lbar")
+        .print("link-args")
+        .input("empty.rs")
+        .command_output();
+    let out = String::from_utf8(out.stdout).unwrap();
+    assert!(out.contains("lfoo"), "output doesn't contain `lfoo`");
+    assert!(out.contains("lbar"), "output doesn't contain `lbar`");
+}