diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libffi/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libffi/default.nix
index 6a22d585fbc8..125beae01efd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libffi/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libffi/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 { lib, stdenv, fetchurl, fetchpatch
 , autoreconfHook
 
-, doCheck ? true # test suite depends on dejagnu which cannot be used during bootstrapping
+  # test suite depends on dejagnu which cannot be used during bootstrapping
+  # dejagnu also requires tcl which can't be built statically at the moment
+, doCheck ? !(stdenv.hostPlatform.isStatic)
 , dejagnu
 }: