diff --git a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
index 62af7b33d2..093852ad9d 100644
--- a/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/contrib/buildsystems/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -1042,7 +1042,7 @@ file(WRITE "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/t/unit-tests/clar.suite" "${clar_decls}" "${clar
 list(TRANSFORM clar_test_SUITES PREPEND "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/t/unit-tests/")
 list(TRANSFORM clar_test_SUITES APPEND ".c")
 add_library(unit-tests-lib ${clar_test_SUITES} "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/t/unit-tests/clar/clar.c")
-target_include_directories(unit-tests-lib PRIVATE "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/t/unit-tests")
+target_include_directories(unit-tests-lib PUBLIC "${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/t/unit-tests")
 add_executable(unit-tests "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/t/unit-tests/unit-test.c")
 target_link_libraries(unit-tests unit-tests-lib common-main)
 set_target_properties(unit-tests