diff --git a/lib/meson.build b/lib/meson.build
index 7c117f45..7a82b598 100644
--- a/lib/meson.build
+++ b/lib/meson.build
@@ -67,4 +67,18 @@ lib_test_mu_common_dep=declare_dependency(
   include_directories: include_directories(['tests']))
 
 # actual tests
+
+test('test-threads',
+     executable('test-threads',
+		'mu-query-threads.cc',
+		install: false,
+		cpp_args: ['-DBUILD_TESTS'],
+		dependencies: [glib_dep, lib_mu_dep, lib_test_mu_common_dep]))
+test('test-contacts-cache',
+     executable('test-contacts-cache',
+		'mu-contacts-cache.cc',
+		install: false,
+		cpp_args: ['-DBUILD_TESTS'],
+		dependencies: [glib_dep, lib_mu_dep, lib_test_mu_common_dep]))
+
 subdir('tests')
diff --git a/lib/tests/meson.build b/lib/tests/meson.build
index 2438f936..0dae9a37 100644
--- a/lib/tests/meson.build
+++ b/lib/tests/meson.build
@@ -43,18 +43,6 @@ test('test-tokenizer',
 		'test-tokenizer.cc',
 		install: false,
 		dependencies: [glib_dep, lib_mu_dep, lib_test_mu_common_dep]))
-test('test-threads',
-     executable('test-threads',
-		'../mu-query-threads.cc',
-		install: false,
-		cpp_args: ['-DBUILD_TESTS'],
-		dependencies: [glib_dep, lib_mu_dep, lib_test_mu_common_dep]))
-test('test-contacts-cache',
-     executable('test-contacts-cache',
-		'../mu-contacts-cache.cc',
-		install: false,
-		cpp_args: ['-DBUILD_TESTS'],
-		dependencies: [glib_dep, lib_mu_dep, lib_test_mu_common_dep]))
 
 test('test-parser',
      executable('test-parser',