diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/default.nix
index 28b6faa436a..bf38a954d60 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/default.nix
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  doCheck = !stdenv.isDarwin;
+  doCheck = (stdenv.hostPlatform == stdenv.buildPlatform) && !stdenv.isDarwin;
 
   crossAttrs = lib.optionalAttrs (hostPlatform.libc == "msvcrt") {
     # creating the DLL is broken ATM