diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gcab/gcab/run-ptest b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gcab/gcab/run-ptest
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gcab/gcab/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+
+gnome-desktop-testing-runner libgcab
diff --git a/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gcab/gcab_1.4.bb b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gcab/gcab_1.4.bb
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+++ b/meta-openembedded/meta-oe/recipes-gnome/gcab/gcab_1.4.bb
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+SUMMARY = "A GObject library to create cabinet files"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gcab"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
+
+DEPENDS = "glib-2.0"
+
+SRC_URI = "\
+    ${GNOME_MIRROR}/gcab/${PV}/gcab-${PV}.tar.xz \
+    file://run-ptest \
+"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "67a5fa9be6c923fbc9197de6332f36f69a33dadc9016a2b207859246711c048f"
+
+inherit gobject-introspection gtk-doc manpages meson ptest-gnome vala
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "\
+    ${@bb.utils.contains('USE_NLS', 'yes', 'nls', '', d)} \
+    ${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', 'tests', '', d)} \
+"
+PACKAGECONFIG[manpages] = ""
+PACKAGECONFIG[nls] = "-Dnls=true,-Dnls=false"
+PACKAGECONFIG[tests] = "-Dtests=true -Dinstalled_tests=true,-Dtests=false -Dinstalled_tests=false"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"