diff --git a/extra/pango/build b/extra/pango/build
index f9f9fd37..50975c9a 100755
--- a/extra/pango/build
+++ b/extra/pango/build
@@ -2,16 +2,16 @@
 
 export DESTDIR="$1"
 
+sed -i "/subdir('tests')/d"    meson.build
+sed -i "/subdir('examples')/d" meson.build
+
 meson \
     --prefix=/usr \
     -Dgir=false \
     -Dgtk_doc=false \
     -Dintrospection=false \
+    -Dinstalled_tests=false \
     . build
 
 ninja -C build
 ninja -C build install
-
-# Remove unneeded tests
-rm -rf "$1/usr/share/installed-tests"
-rm -rf "$1/usr/libexec/installed-tests"