diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.11.x.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.11.x.nix
index 7c9d06baa54..91c27deb8b8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.11.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.11.x.nix
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, perl, autoconf, makeWrapper, doCheck ? true}:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl, autoconf, makeWrapper }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "automake-1.11.6";
@@ -19,8 +19,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [perl autoconf makeWrapper];
 
-  inherit doCheck;
-
   # Disable indented log output from Make, otherwise "make.test" will
   # fail.
   preCheck = "unset NIX_INDENT_MAKE";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.12.x.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.12.x.nix
index e2db84d2fc3..bd609c4a40d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.12.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.12.x.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-{stdenv, fetchurl, perl, autoconf, makeWrapper, doCheck ? true}:
+{ stdenv, fetchurl, perl, autoconf, makeWrapper, doCheck ? false }:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
-  name = "automake-1.12.2";
+  name = "automake-1.12.4";
 
   # TODO: Remove the `aclocal' wrapper when $ACLOCAL_PATH support is
   # available upstream; see
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "mirror://gnu/automake/${name}.tar.xz";
-    sha256 = "5fb56e918189b377a22368e19baaf70252bd85a9969ed5f8a8373f49e8faf07f";
+    sha256 = "0wppdm0wfizs6nmiwlkigcmh2pn33dywdkl7b407j3pvwn622vsi";
   };
 
   buildInputs = [perl autoconf makeWrapper];
diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
index 648adad6216..b6037799ac0 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/all-packages.nix
@@ -2912,20 +2912,9 @@ let
 
   automake110x = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.10.x.nix { };
 
-  automake111x = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.11.x.nix {
-    doCheck = !stdenv.isArm && !stdenv.isCygwin && !stdenv.isMips
-      # Some of the parallel tests seem to hang on `i386-pc-solaris2.11'.
-      && stdenv.system != "i686-solaris"
+  automake111x = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.11.x.nix { };
 
-      # One test fails to terminate on FreeBSD: <http://bugs.gnu.org/8788>.
-      && !stdenv.isFreeBSD;
-  };
-
-  automake112x = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.12.x.nix {
-    doCheck = !stdenv.isArm && !stdenv.isCygwin && !stdenv.isMips
-      # Some of the parallel tests seem to hang on `i386-pc-solaris2.11'.
-      && stdenv.system != "i686-solaris";
-  };
+  automake112x = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/automake/automake-1.12.x.nix { };
 
   automoc4 = callPackage ../development/tools/misc/automoc4 { };