diff --git a/other/travis/autotools-script b/other/travis/autotools-script
index 026967b7..d97b15b3 100755
--- a/other/travis/autotools-script
+++ b/other/travis/autotools-script
@@ -21,4 +21,4 @@ make -j$NPROC -k
 
 # This runs `make check` with the default configure flags, not with the ones
 # above.
-make distcheck -j$NPROC -k
+TESTS $MAX_TEST_RETRIES make distcheck -j$NPROC -k