diff --git a/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt b/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
index 1596257747f..6f57cb717ac 100644
--- a/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
+++ b/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ run-make/export-executable-symbols/Makefile
 run-make/extern-diff-internal-name/Makefile
 run-make/extern-flag-disambiguates/Makefile
 run-make/extern-flag-pathless/Makefile
-run-make/extern-flag-rename-transitive/Makefile
 run-make/extern-fn-explicit-align/Makefile
 run-make/extern-fn-generic/Makefile
 run-make/extern-fn-mangle/Makefile
diff --git a/tests/run-make/extern-flag-rename-transitive/Makefile b/tests/run-make/extern-flag-rename-transitive/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index d16a8e20868..00000000000
--- a/tests/run-make/extern-flag-rename-transitive/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-include ../tools.mk
-
-all:
-	$(RUSTC) foo.rs
-	$(RUSTC) bar.rs
-	$(RUSTC) baz.rs --extern a=$(TMPDIR)/libfoo.rlib
-
diff --git a/tests/run-make/extern-flag-rename-transitive/rmake.rs b/tests/run-make/extern-flag-rename-transitive/rmake.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..0090d487f03
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/run-make/extern-flag-rename-transitive/rmake.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+// In this test, baz.rs is looking for an extern crate "a" which
+// does not exist, and can only run through the --extern rustc flag
+// defining that the "a" crate is in fact just "foo". This test
+// checks that the --extern flag takes precedence over the extern
+// crate statement in the code.
+// See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/52723
+
+use run_make_support::{rust_lib_name, rustc};
+
+fn main() {
+    rustc().input("foo.rs").run();
+    rustc().input("bar.rs").run();
+    rustc().input("baz.rs").extern_("a", rust_lib_name("foo")).run();
+}