diff --git a/Cargo.lock b/Cargo.lock
index 6d0563839aedf..e977964b72c01 100644
--- a/Cargo.lock
+++ b/Cargo.lock
@@ -228,6 +228,12 @@ dependencies = [
  "backtrace",
 ]
 
+[[package]]
+name = "ar"
+version = "0.9.0"
+source = "registry+https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io-index"
+checksum = "d67af77d68a931ecd5cbd8a3b5987d63a1d1d1278f7f6a60ae33db485cdebb69"
+
 [[package]]
 name = "ar_archive_writer"
 version = "0.2.0"
@@ -3394,6 +3400,7 @@ dependencies = [
 name = "run_make_support"
 version = "0.2.0"
 dependencies = [
+ "ar",
  "gimli 0.28.1",
  "object 0.34.0",
  "regex",
diff --git a/src/tools/run-make-support/Cargo.toml b/src/tools/run-make-support/Cargo.toml
index 2f7f51442f164..e3837a2f8cc4e 100644
--- a/src/tools/run-make-support/Cargo.toml
+++ b/src/tools/run-make-support/Cargo.toml
@@ -9,3 +9,4 @@ similar = "2.5.0"
 wasmparser = "0.118.2"
 regex = "1.8" # 1.8 to avoid memchr 2.6.0, as 2.5.0 is pinned in the workspace
 gimli = "0.28.1"
+ar = "0.9.0"
diff --git a/src/tools/run-make-support/src/lib.rs b/src/tools/run-make-support/src/lib.rs
index 487132683e920..771cda630af6a 100644
--- a/src/tools/run-make-support/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/tools/run-make-support/src/lib.rs
@@ -61,6 +61,19 @@ pub fn target() -> String {
     env_var("TARGET")
 }
 
+/// `AR`
+#[track_caller]
+pub fn ar(inputs: &[impl AsRef<Path>], output_path: impl AsRef<Path>) {
+    let output = fs::File::create(&output_path).expect(&format!(
+        "the file in path \"{}\" could not be created",
+        output_path.as_ref().display()
+    ));
+    let mut builder = ar::Builder::new(output);
+    for input in inputs {
+        builder.append_path(input).unwrap();
+    }
+}
+
 /// Check if target is windows-like.
 #[must_use]
 pub fn is_windows() -> bool {
diff --git a/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt b/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
index cb68589d8a4c2..2bc3acc58cb22 100644
--- a/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
+++ b/src/tools/tidy/src/allowed_run_make_makefiles.txt
@@ -54,7 +54,6 @@ run-make/incr-add-rust-src-component/Makefile
 run-make/incr-foreign-head-span/Makefile
 run-make/interdependent-c-libraries/Makefile
 run-make/intrinsic-unreachable/Makefile
-run-make/invalid-library/Makefile
 run-make/issue-107094/Makefile
 run-make/issue-109934-lto-debuginfo/Makefile
 run-make/issue-14698/Makefile
diff --git a/tests/run-make/invalid-library/Makefile b/tests/run-make/invalid-library/Makefile
deleted file mode 100644
index 910d9af7b0564..0000000000000
--- a/tests/run-make/invalid-library/Makefile
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,6 +0,0 @@
-include ../tools.mk
-
-all:
-	touch $(TMPDIR)/lib.rmeta
-	$(AR) crus $(TMPDIR)/libfoo-ffffffff-1.0.rlib $(TMPDIR)/lib.rmeta
-	$(RUSTC) foo.rs 2>&1 | $(CGREP) "found invalid metadata"
diff --git a/tests/run-make/invalid-library/rmake.rs b/tests/run-make/invalid-library/rmake.rs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..750fcd05c8ac5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/run-make/invalid-library/rmake.rs
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+use run_make_support::fs_wrapper::create_file;
+use run_make_support::{ar, rustc};
+
+fn main() {
+    create_file("lib.rmeta");
+    ar(&["lib.rmeta"], "libfoo-ffffffff-1.0.rlib");
+    rustc().input("foo.rs").run_fail().assert_stderr_contains("found invalid metadata");
+}