diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@
AM_CONDITIONAL([USE_LCOV],[test x$use_lcov = xyes])
AM_CONDITIONAL([GLIBC_BACK_COMPAT],[test x$use_glibc_compat = xyes])
AM_CONDITIONAL([HARDEN],[test x$use_hardening = xyes])
-AM_CONDITIONAL([TRAVIS_NOHANG_WORKAROUND],[test x${TRAVIS_NOHANG_WORKAROUND+set} = xset])
+AM_CONDITIONAL([TRAVIS_WORKAROUND],[test x${TRAVIS_NOHANG_WORKAROUND+set} = xset])
AC_DEFINE(CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR, _CLIENT_VERSION_MAJOR, [Major version])
AC_DEFINE(CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR, _CLIENT_VERSION_MINOR, [Minor version])
diff --git a/src/Makefile.test.include b/src/Makefile.test.include
--- a/src/Makefile.test.include
+++ b/src/Makefile.test.include
@@ -3,9 +3,12 @@
# file COPYING or http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php.
TESTS += test/test_bitcoin
-if TRAVIS_NOHANG_WORKAROUND
+if TRAVIS_WORKAROUND
LOG_DRIVER = $(srcdir)/test/printing-test-driver
EXTRA_DIST += test/printing-test-driver
+else
+LOG_DRIVER = $(srcdir)/test/test-driver
+EXTRA_DIST += test/test-driver
endif
bin_PROGRAMS += test/test_bitcoin
noinst_PROGRAMS += test/test_bitcoin_fuzzy
diff --git a/src/test/test-driver b/src/test/test-driver
new file mode 100755
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/test/test-driver
@@ -0,0 +1,148 @@
+#! /bin/sh
+# test-driver - basic testsuite driver script.
+
+scriptversion=2013-07-13.22; # UTC
+
+# Copyright (C) 2011-2014 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
+# any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see .
+
+# As a special exception to the GNU General Public License, if you
+# distribute this file as part of a program that contains a
+# configuration script generated by Autoconf, you may include it under
+# the same distribution terms that you use for the rest of that program.
+
+# This file is maintained in Automake, please report
+# bugs to or send patches to
+# .
+
+# Make unconditional expansion of undefined variables an error. This
+# helps a lot in preventing typo-related bugs.
+set -u
+
+usage_error ()
+{
+ echo "$0: $*" >&2
+ print_usage >&2
+ exit 2
+}
+
+print_usage ()
+{
+ cat <$log_file 2>&1
+estatus=$?
+
+if test $enable_hard_errors = no && test $estatus -eq 99; then
+ tweaked_estatus=1
+else
+ tweaked_estatus=$estatus
+fi
+
+case $tweaked_estatus:$expect_failure in
+ 0:yes) col=$red res=XPASS recheck=yes gcopy=yes;;
+ 0:*) col=$grn res=PASS recheck=no gcopy=no;;
+ 77:*) col=$blu res=SKIP recheck=no gcopy=yes;;
+ 99:*) col=$mgn res=ERROR recheck=yes gcopy=yes;;
+ *:yes) col=$lgn res=XFAIL recheck=no gcopy=yes;;
+ *:*) col=$red res=FAIL recheck=yes gcopy=yes;;
+esac
+
+# Report the test outcome and exit status in the logs, so that one can
+# know whether the test passed or failed simply by looking at the '.log'
+# file, without the need of also peaking into the corresponding '.trs'
+# file (automake bug#11814).
+echo "$res $test_name (exit status: $estatus)" >>$log_file
+
+# Report outcome to console.
+echo "${col}${res}${std}: $test_name"
+
+# Register the test result, and other relevant metadata.
+echo ":test-result: $res" > $trs_file
+echo ":global-test-result: $res" >> $trs_file
+echo ":recheck: $recheck" >> $trs_file
+echo ":copy-in-global-log: $gcopy" >> $trs_file
+
+# Local Variables:
+# mode: shell-script
+# sh-indentation: 2
+# eval: (add-hook 'write-file-hooks 'time-stamp)
+# time-stamp-start: "scriptversion="
+# time-stamp-format: "%:y-%02m-%02d.%02H"
+# time-stamp-time-zone: "UTC"
+# time-stamp-end: "; # UTC"
+# End: