diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libunistring/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libunistring/default.nix
index e02e5228aa4..2c9a13788c5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libunistring/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libunistring/default.nix
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "--with-libiconv-prefix=${libiconv}"
   ];
 
-  doCheck = true;
+  doCheck = false;
 
   /* This seems to cause several random failures like these, which I assume
      is because of bad or missing target dependencies in their build system: