diff --git a/DDTest/CMakeLists.txt b/DDTest/CMakeLists.txt
index bd3d7e2d2b5abc91e55d9bddf148c2a1c686f7b8..f46ed49e80bb0a24dad43bd8a760e1f533be26fd 100644
--- a/DDTest/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/DDTest/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -15,8 +15,9 @@ add_library(DD4hep::DDTest ALIAS DDTest)
 dd4hep_use_python_executable()
 target_include_directories(DDTest INTERFACE include)
 
+##    test_example
+
 foreach(TEST_NAME
-    test_example
     test_bitfield64
     test_bitfieldcoder
     test_DetType
diff --git a/DDTest/src/test_cellDimensions.cc b/DDTest/src/test_cellDimensions.cc
index d678ed8f105cbb6c00a943c2558d46c0551437ea..8dd8d93dfd4c9ec864b16dcce0cd6a003a729231 100644
--- a/DDTest/src/test_cellDimensions.cc
+++ b/DDTest/src/test_cellDimensions.cc
@@ -13,10 +13,10 @@
 #include <cmath>
 
 
-static dd4hep::DDTest test( "CellDimensions" ) ;
+int main() {
 
+  dd4hep::DDTest test( "CellDimensions" ) ;
 
-int main() {
   try{
 
     dd4hep::DDSegmentation::CartesianGridXY seg("system:8,barrel:3,layer:8,slice:5,x:16,y:16");
diff --git a/DDTest/src/test_segmentationHandles.cc b/DDTest/src/test_segmentationHandles.cc
index 5c0427487184a07d44631f8f744b86b0a5152525..22ebf19f08c2dd4a2031043991ebd25c02f1543d 100644
--- a/DDTest/src/test_segmentationHandles.cc
+++ b/DDTest/src/test_segmentationHandles.cc
@@ -13,12 +13,14 @@
 #include <cmath>
 
 
-static dd4hep::DDTest test( "CellDimensions" ) ;
 using namespace dd4hep;
 using namespace dd4hep::detail;
 //using dd4hep::DDSegmentation::BitFieldCoder;
 
 int main() {
+
+  dd4hep::DDTest test( "CellDimensions" );
+
   try{
     BitFieldCoder bf("system:8,barrel:3,layer:8,slice:5,x:16,y:16");
     Segmentation base("CartesianGridXY","Test",&bf);