diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index f135d4a7..9b409691 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -726,10 +726,9 @@ test('tools-builddir-lookup-installed',
 
 ############ tests ############
 
-test_symbols_leak = find_program('test/symbols-leak-test.in')
 test('symbols-leak-test',
-     test_symbols_leak,
-     args : [ meson.current_source_dir() ])
+     find_program('test/symbols-leak-test'),
+     args : [ join_paths(dir_src, 'libinput.sym'), dir_src])
 
 # build-test only
 executable('test-build-pedantic',
diff --git a/test/symbols-leak-test b/test/symbols-leak-test
new file mode 100755
index 00000000..7b612f41
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/symbols-leak-test
@@ -0,0 +1,18 @@
+#!/bin/bash -e
+#
+# simple check for exported symbols
+#
+# Usage: symbols-leak-test /path/to/mapfile /path/to/libinput/src
+
+mapfile="$1"
+shift
+srcdir="$1"
+shift
+
+diff -a -u \
+	<(cat "$mapfile" | \
+		grep '^\s\+libinput_.*' | \
+		sed -e 's/^\s\+\(.*\);/\1/' |  sort) \
+	<(cat "$srcdir"/*.c | \
+		grep LIBINPUT_EXPORT -A 1 | grep '^libinput_.*' | \
+		sed -e 's/(.*//' | sort)
diff --git a/test/symbols-leak-test.in b/test/symbols-leak-test.in
deleted file mode 100755
index 86792dc5..00000000
--- a/test/symbols-leak-test.in
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,28 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/bash
-
-### simple check for exported symbols
-
-# Allow running this after the configure.ac replacement or directly with an
-# argument for the top_srcdir
-TOP_SRCDIR="@top_srcdir@"
-case "$TOP_SRCDIR" in
-@*)
-	TOP_SRCDIR="$1"
-	;;
-*)
-	;;
-esac
-
-# make bash exit if any command will exit with non-0 return value
-set -e
-
-# make sure the paths are alright
-cd `dirname $0`
-
-diff -a -u \
-	<(cat "$TOP_SRCDIR"/src/libinput.sym | \
-		grep '^\s\+libinput_.*' | \
-		sed -e 's/^\s\+\(.*\);/\1/' |  sort) \
-	<(cat "$TOP_SRCDIR"/src/*.c | \
-		grep LIBINPUT_EXPORT -A 1 | grep '^libinput_.*' | \
-		sed -e 's/(.*//' | sort)