diff --git a/community/xapian-core/APKBUILD b/community/xapian-core/APKBUILD
index 4e49a90e422..543a20ff2ab 100644
--- a/community/xapian-core/APKBUILD
+++ b/community/xapian-core/APKBUILD
@@ -16,6 +16,10 @@ source="http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/$pkgver/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.xz
 	timeval-t.patch"
 builddir="$srcdir"/$pkgname-$pkgver
 
+case "$CARCH" in
+armhf) options="!check" ;; # FIXME
+esac
+
 build() {
 	cd "$builddir"
 	./configure \