diff --git a/tests/scripts/run-test-suites.pl b/tests/scripts/run-test-suites.pl
index 02f9a2f..f35dfab 100755
--- a/tests/scripts/run-test-suites.pl
+++ b/tests/scripts/run-test-suites.pl
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@
 # and profiling information, etc. We can't just grep {! /\./} because
 # some of our test cases' base names contain a dot.
 my @suites = grep { -x $_ || /\.exe$/ } glob 'test_suite_*';
-@suites = grep { !/\.c$/ && !/\.data$/ } @suites;
+@suites = grep { !/\.c$/ && !/\.data$/ && -f } @suites;
 die "$0: no test suite found\n" unless @suites;
 
 # in case test suites are linked dynamically