diff --git a/tests/AheadOfTime/Trimming/check.ps1 b/tests/AheadOfTime/Trimming/check.ps1
index 7c27ec37172..add84fdd2df 100644
--- a/tests/AheadOfTime/Trimming/check.ps1
+++ b/tests/AheadOfTime/Trimming/check.ps1
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ function CheckTrim($root, $tfm, $outputfile, $expected_len) {
 
 # NOTE: Trimming now errors out on desktop TFMs, as shown below:
 # error NETSDK1124: Trimming assemblies requires .NET Core 3.0 or higher.
-
+$compressAllMetadata = $env:_kind -eq "-compressAllMetadata"
 $expectedForSelfContained = if ($compressAllMetadata) {300032} else {288256}
 
 # Check net7.0 trimmed assemblies