diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gnumake/3.82/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gnumake/3.82/default.nix
index fa7bb9e122ad..ce5eff878ead 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gnumake/3.82/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/build-managers/gnumake/3.82/default.nix
@@ -10,8 +10,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   };
 
   /* On Darwin, there are 3 test failures that haven't been investigated
-     yet.  */
-  doCheck = !stdenv.isDarwin && !stdenv.isFreeBSD;
+     yet. On cygwin at least parallelsim test hangs. */
+  doCheck = !stdenv.isDarwin && !stdenv.isFreeBSD && !stdenv.isCygwin;
 
   patches =
     [