diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq/run-ptest b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq/run-ptest
old mode 100644
new mode 100755
index 0e4c707e9..a813958b5
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq/run-ptest
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq/run-ptest
@@ -1,11 +1,37 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
+JQ_LIB=@libdir@/jq
+LOG="${JQ_LIB}/ptest/jq_ptest_$(date +%Y%m%d-%H%M%S).log"
+
+# clean up the log file to avoid a file has the same name and has existing content
+echo "" > ${LOG}
+
+# The purpose of ptest is doing intergration test, so disable valgrind by default
+# change PACKAGECOFIG to enable valgrind.
+#export NO_VALGRIND=1
+# The --enable-valgrind configure option for jq only can be used within Makefiles,
+# and it cannot be utilized here since it also checks compile, which cannot be avoid
+# Requested enhancement to jq: https://github.com/stedolan/jq/issues/2493
+
 for test in optionaltest mantest jqtest onigtest shtest utf8test base64test; do
-	./tests/${test}
+	./tests/${test} >> ${LOG} 2>> ${LOG}
 	if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
 		echo "PASS: ${test}"
+		echo "PASS: ${test}" >> ${LOG}
 	else
 		echo "FAIL: ${test}"
+		echo "FAIL: ${test}" >> ${LOG}
 	fi
 done
 
+passed=`grep PASS: ${LOG}|wc -l`
+failed=`grep FAIL: ${LOG}|wc -l`
+skipped=`grep SKIP: ${LOG}|wc -l`
+all=$((passed + failed + skipped))
+
+( echo "=== Test Summary ==="
+  echo "TOTAL: ${all}"
+  echo "PASSED: ${passed}"
+  echo "FAILED: ${failed}"
+  echo "SKIPPED: ${skipped}"
+) | tee -a /${LOG}
diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq_git.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq_git.bb
index c6634cd30..4fa98aa44 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq_git.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-devtools/jq/jq_git.bb
@@ -24,10 +24,8 @@ PACKAGECONFIG ?= "oniguruma"
 PACKAGECONFIG[docs] = "--enable-docs,--disable-docs,ruby-native"
 PACKAGECONFIG[maintainer-mode] = "--enable-maintainer-mode,--disable-maintainer-mode,flex-native bison-native"
 PACKAGECONFIG[oniguruma] = "--with-oniguruma,--without-oniguruma,onig"
-
-EXTRA_OECONF += " \
-    --disable-valgrind \
-"
+# enable if you want ptest running under valgrind
+PACKAGECONFIG[valgrind] = "--enable-valgrind,--disable-valgrind,valgrind"
 
 do_install_ptest() {
     cp -rf ${B}/tests ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
@@ -35,6 +33,11 @@ do_install_ptest() {
     # libjq.so.* is packaged in the main jq component, so remove it from ptest
     rm -f ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/.libs/libjq.so.*
     ln -sf ${bindir}/jq ${D}${PTEST_PATH}
+    if [ "${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'valgrind', 'true', 'false', d)}" = "false" ]; then
+        sed -i 's:#export NO_VALGRIND=1:export NO_VALGRIND=1:g' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/run-ptest
+    fi
+    # handle multilib
+    sed -i s:@libdir@:${libdir}:g ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/run-ptest
 }
 
 BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"