diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index e438814946..d479dbf36a 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -58,12 +58,16 @@ before_script:
 - cd built
 
 script:
+# This is kind of a hack, but needed to test non-metalib builds (until
+# interrogate has a way of explicitly calling init_libpanda)
+- '[ "x$BUILD_METALIBS" == "xON" ] || export LDFLAGS=-Wl,--no-as-needed'
+
 - cmake -DHAVE_GTK2=NO -DBUILD_METALIBS=$BUILD_METALIBS -DCOMPOSITE_SOURCE_LIMIT=$COMPOSITE_SOURCE_LIMIT .. 
 - make -j4
 
 - export PYTHONPATH=$PWD
 - python ../test_imports.py
-- pytest ../tests
+- pytest -v ../tests
 
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