diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ast-grep/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ast-grep/default.nix
index 2cad8d017d7a..fc23e9e3d2ea 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ast-grep/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/misc/ast-grep/default.nix
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
 { lib
 , rustPlatform
 , fetchFromGitHub
+, stdenv
 }:
+
 rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
   pname = "ast-grep";
   version = "0.5.2";
@@ -15,6 +17,17 @@ rustPlatform.buildRustPackage rec {
 
   cargoHash = "sha256-ed6hc7MIo/Hu1JY7yy6dYHbaTZ9S+T0dh/2H3sTT52Y=";
 
+  # error: linker `aarch64-linux-gnu-gcc` not found
+  postPatch = ''
+    rm .cargo/config.toml
+  '';
+
+  checkFlags = lib.optionals (stdenv.isx86_64 && stdenv.isDarwin) [
+    # fails on emulated x86_64-darwin
+    # mach-o file, but is an incompatible architecture (have 'arm64', need 'x86_64')
+    "--skip=test::test_load_parser"
+  ];
+
   meta = with lib; {
     mainProgram = "sg";
     description = "A fast and polyglot tool for code searching, linting, rewriting at large scale";