diff --git a/.gn b/.gn
index 45527a5..7726b98 100644
--- a/.gn
+++ b/.gn
@@ -34,10 +34,7 @@
   vma_vulkan_headers_dir = "//third_party/vulkan-deps/vulkan-headers/src"
 }
 
-check_targets = [
-  # Everything in BUILD.gn
-  "//:*",
-
-  # Everything in third_party/BUILD.gn
-  "//third_party/:*",
+no_check_targets = [
+  # TODO(crbug.com/dawn/1404): Issue with the Absl headers
+  "//src/dawn/tests:dawn_unittests",
 ]
diff --git a/src/dawn/samples/BUILD.gn b/src/dawn/samples/BUILD.gn
index 26067fe..58874cf 100644
--- a/src/dawn/samples/BUILD.gn
+++ b/src/dawn/samples/BUILD.gn
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
   # Export all of these as public deps so that `gn check` allows includes
   public_deps = [
     "${dawn_root}/src/dawn:cpp",
+    "${dawn_root}/src/dawn:proc_shared",
     "${dawn_root}/src/dawn/common",
     "${dawn_root}/src/dawn/native",
     "${dawn_root}/src/dawn/utils",