diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/default.nix
index 1b72c5b38cc0..45ce1b555925 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libxml2/default.nix
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  doCheck = true;
+  doCheck = !stdenv.isDarwin;
 
   crossAttrs = lib.optionalAttrs (stdenv.cross.libc == "msvcrt") {
     # creating the DLL is broken ATM