diff --git a/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt b/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
index ff339ed2f71..ffaded89d86 100644
--- a/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
+++ b/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
@@ -103,7 +103,6 @@ run-make/issue-25581/Makefile
 run-make/issue-26006/Makefile
 run-make/issue-26092/Makefile
 run-make/issue-28595/Makefile
-run-make/issue-28766/Makefile
 run-make/issue-30063/Makefile
 run-make/issue-33329/Makefile
 run-make/issue-35164/Makefile
diff --git a/tests/run-make/issue-28766/foo.rs b/tests/run-make/box-struct-no-segfault/foo.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from tests/run-make/issue-28766/foo.rs
rename to tests/run-make/box-struct-no-segfault/foo.rs
diff --git a/tests/run-make/issue-28766/main.rs b/tests/run-make/box-struct-no-segfault/main.rs
similarity index 100%
rename from tests/run-make/issue-28766/main.rs
rename to tests/run-make/box-struct-no-segfault/main.rs
diff --git a/tests/run-make/box-struct-no-segfault/rmake.rs b/tests/run-make/box-struct-no-segfault/rmake.rs
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5406f765e6c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/run-make/box-struct-no-segfault/rmake.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+// The crate "foo" tied to this test executes a very specific function,
+// which involves boxing an instance of the struct Foo. However,
+// this once caused a segmentation fault in cargo release builds due to an LLVM
+// incorrect assertion.
+// This test checks that this bug does not resurface.
+// See https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/28766
+
+use run_make_support::{rustc, tmp_dir};
+
+fn main() {
+    rustc().opt().input("foo.rs").run();
+    rustc().opt().library_search_path(tmp_dir()).input("main.rs").run();
+}
diff --git a/tests/run-make/issue-28766/Makefile b/tests/run-make/issue-28766/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 96d0bdc2b2a..00000000000
--- a/tests/run-make/issue-28766/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,5 +0,0 @@
-include ../tools.mk
-
-all:
-	$(RUSTC) -O foo.rs
-	$(RUSTC) -O -L $(TMPDIR) main.rs