diff --git a/src/test/run-make/stdin-non-utf8/Makefile b/src/test/run-make/stdin-non-utf8/Makefile
index f883e546e9c..7948c442616 100644
--- a/src/test/run-make/stdin-non-utf8/Makefile
+++ b/src/test/run-make/stdin-non-utf8/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 -include ../tools.mk
 
 all:
-	echo -e '\xD2' | $(RUSTC) - 2>&1 \
+	cp non-utf8 $(TMPDIR)/non-utf.rs
+	cat $(TMPDIR)/non-utf.rs | $(RUSTC) - 2>&1 \
 		| $(CGREP) "error: couldn't read from stdin, as it did not contain valid UTF-8"
diff --git a/src/test/run-make/stdin-non-utf8/non-utf8 b/src/test/run-make/stdin-non-utf8/non-utf8
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..bc87051a852
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/run-make/stdin-non-utf8/non-utf8
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Ò