diff --git a/meta-oe/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-oe.inc b/meta-oe/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-oe.inc
index 212b90c868..bab9d4372c 100644
--- a/meta-oe/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-oe.inc
+++ b/meta-oe/conf/include/ptest-packagelists-meta-oe.inc
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ PTESTS_SLOW_META_OE = "\
     libusb-compat \
     rsyslog \
     mariadb \
+    re2 \
 "
 PTESTS_SLOW_META_OE:append:x86 = " kernel-selftest"
 PTESTS_SLOW_META_OE:append:x86-64 = " kernel-selftest"
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/re2/re2/run-ptest b/meta-oe/recipes-support/re2/re2/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8bd5fd1efb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/re2/re2/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+ctest --force-new-ctest-process | sed -u 's/\*\*\*/   /g' | awk '/Test +#/{gsub(/Passed/,"PASS"); gsub(/Failed/,"FAIL"); gsub(/Skipped/,"SKIP"); print $6": "$4; fflush();}'
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-support/re2/re2_2023.03.01.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-support/re2/re2_2023.03.01.bb
index 78bf695a4a..fe210d5107 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-support/re2/re2_2023.03.01.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-support/re2/re2_2023.03.01.bb
@@ -6,17 +6,27 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=3b5c31eb512bdf3cb11ffd5713963760"
 # tag 2023-03-01
 SRCREV = "241e2e430836e80f93d704d1f06cd3e7fe3100f5"
 
-SRC_URI = "git://github.com/google/re2.git;branch=main;protocol=https"
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/google/re2.git;branch=main;protocol=https \
+           ${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', 'file://run-ptest', '', d)} \
+          "
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
 
-inherit cmake
+inherit cmake ptest
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "cmake sed"
 
 EXTRA_OECMAKE += " \
 	-DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
-	-DRE2_BUILD_TESTING=OFF \
+        ${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', '-DRE2_BUILD_TESTING=ON', '-DRE2_BUILD_TESTING=OFF', d)} \
 "
 
+do_install_ptest () {
+    cp -r ${B}/*_test ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
+    cp -r ${B}/CTestTestfile.cmake ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
+    sed -i -e 's#${B}#${PTEST_PATH}#g' `find ${D}${PTEST_PATH} -name CTestTestfile.cmake`
+    sed -i -e 's#${S}#${PTEST_PATH}#g' `find ${D}${PTEST_PATH} -name CTestTestfile.cmake`
+}
+
 # ignore .so in /usr/lib64
 FILES:${PN} = "${libdir}"
 INSANE_SKIP:${PN} += "dev-so"