From 7438083a4d9d7b60b915d59e118f19398f177fe3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Malakhovski <oxij@oxij.org>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 03:20:18 +0000
Subject: tree-wide: disable `doCheck` and `doInstallCheck` where it fails (the
 trivial part)

---
 pkgs/development/libraries/appstream-glib/default.nix        | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-atk/default.nix           | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-core/default.nix          | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/cairo/default.nix                 | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/celt/generic.nix                  | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/ctpp2/default.nix                 | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/eigen/default.nix                 | 8 +++++---
 pkgs/development/libraries/enchant/2.x.nix                   | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/epoxy/default.nix                 | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/ffmpeg/generic.nix                | 3 ++-
 pkgs/development/libraries/gdk-pixbuf/default.nix            | 2 +-
 pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/default.nix                  | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/git2/0.25.nix                     | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/git2/default.nix                  | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix                  | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/default.nix | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/grantlee/5/default.nix            | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/gstreamer/bad/default.nix         | 3 +++
 pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix                      | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/3.x.nix                      | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/gts/default.nix                   | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/id3lib/default.nix                | 4 +++-
 pkgs/development/libraries/jasper/default.nix                | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/kerberos/krb5.nix                 | 1 +
 pkgs/development/libraries/lcms/default.nix                  | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/libarchive/default.nix            | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/libcddb/default.nix               | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/libcue/default.nix                | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/libevent/default.nix              | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/libical/default.nix               | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/libidn/default.nix                | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/libindicator/default.nix          | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/liblo/default.nix                 | 4 +++-
 pkgs/development/libraries/libnih/default.nix                | 4 +++-
 pkgs/development/libraries/libomxil-bellagio/default.nix     | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/libproxy/default.nix              | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/librsvg/default.nix               | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/libsoup/default.nix               | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/libtorrent-rasterbar/generic.nix  | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/libtoxcore/default.nix            | 7 +++----
 pkgs/development/libraries/libuchardet/default.nix           | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/libunwind/default.nix             | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/libvdpau-va-gl/default.nix        | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/libxkbcommon/default.nix          | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/openexr/default.nix               | 1 +
 pkgs/development/libraries/openldap/default.nix              | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/p11-kit/default.nix               | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/pcre2/default.nix                 | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/popt/default.nix                  | 6 ++++--
 pkgs/development/libraries/qt-4.x/4.8/default.nix            | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/sqlcipher/default.nix             | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/tk/8.5.nix                        | 1 -
 pkgs/development/libraries/tk/8.6.nix                        | 1 -
 pkgs/development/libraries/tk/generic.nix                    | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/zeromq/3.x.nix                    | 2 ++
 pkgs/development/libraries/zeromq/4.x.nix                    | 2 ++
 56 files changed, 115 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

(limited to 'pkgs/development/libraries')

diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream-glib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream-glib/default.nix
index 6ad6b158826f9..b09f5f67f5635 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream-glib/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/appstream-glib/default.nix
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "-Ddep11=false"
   ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails at least 1 test
+
   postInstall = ''
     moveToOutput "share/installed-tests" "$installedTests"
   '';
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-atk/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-atk/default.nix
index 86f35d7f578e8..1e5d003654ce5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-atk/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-atk/default.nix
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ python popt atk libX11 libICE xorg.libXtst libXi
                   dbus-glib at-spi2-core libSM ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # needs dbus daemon
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     platforms = platforms.unix;
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-core/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-core/default.nix
index 6715a59579b59..b7547c2939285 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-core/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/at-spi2-core/default.nix
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   # ToDo: on non-NixOS we create a symlink from there?
   configureFlags = "--with-dbus-daemondir=/run/current-system/sw/bin/";
 
+  doCheck = false; # needs dbus daemon
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     platforms = platforms.unix;
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/cairo/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/cairo/default.nix
index 6d7b79c0b20a7..74ae4abaedf94 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/cairo/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/cairo/default.nix
@@ -72,6 +72,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails
+
   postInstall = stdenv.lib.optionalString stdenv.isDarwin glib.flattenInclude;
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/celt/generic.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/celt/generic.nix
index 9d861f2c4328e..6bf7975034b51 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/celt/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/celt/generic.nix
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = []
     ++ stdenv.lib.optional liboggSupport libogg;
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Ultra-low delay audio codec";
     homepage    = http://www.celt-codec.org/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/ctpp2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/ctpp2/default.nix
index bb1d4458f50cc..bf57bab2f2222 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/ctpp2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/ctpp2/default.nix
@@ -16,6 +16,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sed -ie 's/<stdlib.h>/<stdlib.h>\n#include <unistd.h>/' src/CTPP2FileSourceLoader.cpp
   '';
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails
+
   meta = {
     description = "A high performance templating engine";
     homepage = http://ctpp.havoc.ru;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/eigen/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/eigen/default.nix
index 5869276a7977d..4e1559e5c7388 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/eigen/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/eigen/default.nix
@@ -5,19 +5,21 @@ let
 in
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
   name = "eigen-${version}";
-  
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://bitbucket.org/eigen/eigen/get/${version}.tar.gz";
     name = "eigen-${version}.tar.gz";
     sha256 = "00l52y7m276gh8wjkqqcxz6x687azrm7a70s3iraxnpy9bxa9y04";
   };
-  
+
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # a couple of tests fail with "Child aborted"
+
   postInstall = ''
     sed -e '/Cflags:/s@''${prefix}/@@' -i "$out"/share/pkgconfig/eigen3.pc
   '';
-  
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "C++ template library for linear algebra: vectors, matrices, and related algorithms";
     license = licenses.lgpl3Plus;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/enchant/2.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/enchant/2.x.nix
index 458b23c33e94a..8b559bd03c820 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/enchant/2.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/enchant/2.x.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   buildInputs = [ glib hunspell ];
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ hspell aspell ]; # libtool puts it to la file
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails to compile with with "UnitTest++.h: No such file or directory"
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Generic spell checking library";
     homepage = https://abiword.github.io/enchant/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/epoxy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/epoxy/default.nix
index e0f8e9ff8c764..d44e2650db0a3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/epoxy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/epoxy/default.nix
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   NIX_CFLAGS_COMPILE = ''-DLIBGL_PATH="${getLib libGL}/lib"'';
 
+  doCheck = false; # needs X11
+
   meta = {
     description = "A library for handling OpenGL function pointer management";
     homepage = https://github.com/anholt/libepoxy;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/ffmpeg/generic.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/ffmpeg/generic.nix
index 985f328a22dd9..87bc0a7dfb94c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/ffmpeg/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/ffmpeg/generic.nix
@@ -160,9 +160,10 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     ++ optional vdpauSupport libvdpau
     ++ optional sdlSupport (if reqMin "3.2" then SDL2 else SDL);
 
-
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails
+
   postFixup = ''
     moveToOutput bin "$bin"
     moveToOutput share/ffmpeg/examples "$doc"
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdk-pixbuf/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdk-pixbuf/default.nix
index a3a6f1ff480c4..f9f041e955b0b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gdk-pixbuf/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gdk-pixbuf/default.nix
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     '';
 
   # The tests take an excessive amount of time (> 1.5 hours) and memory (> 6 GB).
-  inherit (doCheck);
+  inherit doCheck;
 
   passthru = {
     updateScript = gnome3.updateScript {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/default.nix
index 8c93428a07803..d2987be6a3d50 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gegl/default.nix
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails 3 out of 19 tests
+
   meta = {
     description = "Graph-based image processing framework";
     homepage = http://www.gegl.org;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/0.25.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/0.25.nix
index 9743b82a14abc..6bb1de2cf3481 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/0.25.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/0.25.nix
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  doCheck = false; # hangs. or very expensive?
+
   meta = {
     description = "The Git linkable library";
     homepage = https://libgit2.github.com/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/default.nix
index c0659a79fd343..2da1a9ba2a648 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/git2/default.nix
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  doCheck = false; # hangs. or very expensive?
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "The Git linkable library";
     homepage = https://libgit2.github.com/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix
index 31567f0049dd9..01544c79b2ea4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/glibc/common.nix
@@ -191,6 +191,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation ({
 
   preBuild = lib.optionalString withGd "unset NIX_DONT_SET_RPATH";
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails
+
   meta = {
     homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/;
     description = "The GNU C Library";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/default.nix
index f79511897fbe9..f5ab5005bad46 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gobject-introspection/default.nix
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       cairoLib = "${getLib cairo}/lib";
     });
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails
+
   passthru = {
     updateScript = gnome3.updateScript {
       packageName = pname;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/grantlee/5/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/grantlee/5/default.nix
index 3eed4f0c2e29e..aa670cd4c86b3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/grantlee/5/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/grantlee/5/default.nix
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ mkDerivation rec {
 
   setupHook = ./setup-hook.sh;
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails all the tests (ctest)
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "Qt5 port of Django template system";
     longDescription = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gstreamer/bad/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gstreamer/bad/default.nix
index 73cbaa0f8070a..38a8260473d22 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gstreamer/bad/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gstreamer/bad/default.nix
@@ -77,4 +77,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     ++ optional (!stdenv.isDarwin) mjpegtools;
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
+  doCheck = false; # fails 20 out of 58 tests, expensive
+
 }
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix
index d35e47f312f9f..9731280dedd08 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/2.x.nix
@@ -49,6 +49,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "--disable-visibility"
   ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # needs X11
+
   postInstall = ''
     moveToOutput share/gtk-2.0/demo "$devdoc"
     # The updater is needed for nixos env and it's tiny.
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/3.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/3.x.nix
index dc6a519dfadec..0a9513b0fc483 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/3.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gtk+/3.x.nix
@@ -63,6 +63,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "--enable-wayland-backend"
   ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # needs X11
+
   postInstall = optionalString (!stdenv.isDarwin) ''
     substituteInPlace "$out/lib/gtk-3.0/3.0.0/printbackends/libprintbackend-cups.la" \
       --replace '-L${gmp.dev}/lib' '-L${gmp.out}/lib'
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gts/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gts/default.nix
index 770f743fd260a..d0da7f8cef610 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gts/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gts/default.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ glib gettext ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails with "permission denied"
+
   meta = {
     homepage = http://gts.sourceforge.net/;
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.lgpl2Plus;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/id3lib/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/id3lib/default.nix
index 199ac7c902b01..dda1435c1dac7 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/id3lib/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/id3lib/default.nix
@@ -9,12 +9,14 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
   ];
 
   buildInputs = [ zlib ];
-  
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = mirror://sourceforge/id3lib/id3lib-3.8.3.tar.gz;
     sha256 = "0yfhqwk0w8q2hyv1jib1008jvzmwlpsxvc8qjllhna6p1hycqj97";
   };
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails to compile
+
   meta = {
     platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.unix;
   };
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/jasper/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/jasper/default.nix
index d374c935a2a4d..bc18a13884b51 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/jasper/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/jasper/default.nix
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails
+
   postInstall = ''
     moveToOutput bin "$bin"
   '';
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/kerberos/krb5.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/kerberos/krb5.nix
index 98073b7bbdc46..d705aa3388fd4 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/kerberos/krb5.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/kerberos/krb5.nix
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   '';
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  doCheck = false; # fails with "No suitable file for testing purposes"
 
   meta = {
     description = "MIT Kerberos 5";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/lcms/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/lcms/default.nix
index 3e4f0d4265f2c..63c81822ddf87 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/lcms/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/lcms/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   outputs = [ "bin" "dev" "out" "man" ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails with "Error in Linear interpolation (2p): Must be i=8000, But is n=8001"
+
   meta = {
     description = "Color management engine";
     homepage = http://www.littlecms.com/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libarchive/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libarchive/default.nix
index e0242802fd34e..9a9c3b1fa64d5 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libarchive/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libarchive/default.nix
@@ -38,6 +38,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     echo "#include <windows.h>" >> config.h
   '' else null;
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails
+
   preFixup = ''
     sed -i $lib/lib/libarchive.la \
       -e 's|-lcrypto|-L${openssl.out}/lib -lcrypto|' \
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcddb/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcddb/default.nix
index 6a164ef905534..591369df83f1c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcddb/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcddb/default.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin libiconv;
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails 3 of 5 tests with locale errors
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "C library to access data on a CDDB server (freedb.org)";
     homepage = http://libcddb.sourceforge.net/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcue/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcue/default.nix
index fb0f0d3d3f9c0..683a5bee4c7c6 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libcue/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libcue/default.nix
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake bison flex ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails all the tests (ctest)
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "CUE Sheet Parser Library";
     longDescription = ''
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libevent/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libevent/default.nix
index 871437f190829..b74e64aa8490a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libevent/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libevent/default.nix
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     ++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin fixDarwinDylibNames
     ;
 
+  doCheck = false; # needs the net
+
   postInstall = stdenv.lib.optionalString sslSupport ''
     moveToOutput "lib/libevent_openssl*" "$openssl"
     substituteInPlace "$dev/lib/pkgconfig/libevent_openssl.pc" \
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libical/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libical/default.nix
index 5ba8bb6678455..fd9c8dc9a5e32 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libical/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libical/default.nix
@@ -18,6 +18,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     ./respect-env-tzdir.patch
   ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails all the tests (ctest)
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = https://github.com/libical/libical;
     description = "An Open Source implementation of the iCalendar protocols";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libidn/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libidn/default.nix
index 185cd2ede84c7..b6f08a9206ee9 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libidn/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libidn/default.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isDarwin libiconv;
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails
+
   meta = {
     homepage = http://www.gnu.org/software/libidn/;
     description = "Library for internationalized domain names";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libindicator/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libindicator/default.nix
index 67936fecdf4ec..a6eb0bed2bb87 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libindicator/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libindicator/default.nix
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "localstatedir=\${TMPDIR}"
   ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails 8 out of 8 tests
+
   meta = {
     description = "A set of symbols and convenience functions for Ayatana indicators";
     homepage = https://launchpad.net/libindicator;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/liblo/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/liblo/default.nix
index ae1d458b0d52a..c72b9723dc52f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/liblo/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/liblo/default.nix
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0sn0ckc1d0845mhsaa62wf7f9v0c0ykiq796a30ja5096kib9qdc";
   };
 
-  meta = { 
+  doCheck = false; # fails 1 out of 3 tests
+
+  meta = {
     description = "Lightweight library to handle the sending and receiving of messages according to the Open Sound Control (OSC) protocol";
     homepage = https://sourceforge.net/projects/liblo;
     license = stdenv.lib.licenses.gpl2;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libnih/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libnih/default.nix
index 4903d54b4a318..22eb8ed64dd8a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libnih/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libnih/default.nix
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ let version = "1.0.3"; in
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "libnih-${version}";
-  
+
   src = fetchurl {
     url = "http://code.launchpad.net/libnih/1.0/${version}/+download/libnih-${version}.tar.gz";
     sha256 = "01glc6y7z1g726zwpvp2zm79pyb37ki729jkh45akh35fpgp4xc9";
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ dbus expat ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails 1 of 17 test
+
   meta = {
     description = "A small library for C application development";
     homepage = https://launchpad.net/libnih;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libomxil-bellagio/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libomxil-bellagio/default.nix
index 28c8a915c6357..68302acac29fc 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libomxil-bellagio/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libomxil-bellagio/default.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   patches = [ ./fedora-fixes.patch ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = https://sourceforge.net/projects/omxil/;
     description = "An opensource implementation of the Khronos OpenMAX Integration Layer API to access multimedia components";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libproxy/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libproxy/default.nix
index bf9e2d079cd6e..02e634b22a344 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libproxy/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libproxy/default.nix
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     )
   '';
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails 1 out of 10 tests
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     platforms = platforms.linux ++ platforms.darwin;
     license = licenses.lgpl21;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/librsvg/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/librsvg/default.nix
index 7ee1733f34d26..dfd45f8e4ff2e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/librsvg/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/librsvg/default.nix
@@ -52,6 +52,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
         -i gdk-pixbuf-loader/librsvg.thumbnailer.in
   '';
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails 20 of 145 tests, very likely to be buggy
+
   # Merge gdkpixbuf and librsvg loaders
   postInstall = ''
     mv $GDK_PIXBUF/loaders.cache $GDK_PIXBUF/loaders.cache.tmp
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libsoup/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libsoup/default.nix
index 92e9c3662c9f1..75898852a095a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libsoup/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libsoup/default.nix
@@ -36,6 +36,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "--with-gnome=${if gnomeSupport then "yes" else "no"}"
   ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails with "no: command not found"
+
   passthru = {
     propagatedUserEnvPackages = [ glib-networking.out ];
     updateScript = gnome3.updateScript {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libtorrent-rasterbar/generic.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libtorrent-rasterbar/generic.nix
index 8c85864f87a5b..c112ab65a20db 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libtorrent-rasterbar/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libtorrent-rasterbar/generic.nix
@@ -33,6 +33,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails to link
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://www.rasterbar.com/products/libtorrent/;
     description = "A C++ BitTorrent implementation focusing on efficiency and scalability";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libtoxcore/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libtoxcore/default.nix
index 16fca9ce3d395..5967d2f4c319a 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libtoxcore/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libtoxcore/default.nix
@@ -29,12 +29,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
-  checkInputs = [ check ];
-
-  checkPhase = "ctest";
+  doCheck = false; # hangs, tries to access the net?
 
   # for some reason the tests are not running - it says "No tests found!!"
-  doCheck = true;
+  checkInputs = [ check ];
+  checkPhase = "ctest";
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "P2P FOSS instant messaging application aimed to replace Skype";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libuchardet/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libuchardet/default.nix
index ea411d73b3185..52bc0ac5cfd4c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libuchardet/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libuchardet/default.nix
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ cmake ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails all the tests (ctest)
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "Mozilla's Universal Charset Detector C/C++ API";
     homepage    = https://www.byvoid.com/zht/project/uchardet;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libunwind/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libunwind/default.nix
index b901d352808e9..dbf1d7a3756fd 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libunwind/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libunwind/default.nix
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     done
   '';
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind;
     description = "A portable and efficient API to determine the call-chain of a program";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libvdpau-va-gl/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libvdpau-va-gl/default.nix
index 3ea0155b4f42a..50b995a035686 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libvdpau-va-gl/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libvdpau-va-gl/default.nix
@@ -15,6 +15,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake pkgconfig ];
   buildInputs = [ libX11 libpthreadstubs libXau libXdmcp libXext libvdpau glib libva ffmpeg libGLU ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails. needs DRI access
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = https://github.com/i-rinat/libvdpau-va-gl;
     description = "VDPAU driver with OpenGL/VAAPI backend";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libxkbcommon/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libxkbcommon/default.nix
index faeed680f3d61..3e0a2872c005b 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libxkbcommon/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libxkbcommon/default.nix
@@ -27,6 +27,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     "-Dx-locale-root=${libX11.out}/share/X11/locale"
   ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails, needs unicode locale
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     description = "A library to handle keyboard descriptions";
     homepage = https://xkbcommon.org;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/openexr/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/openexr/default.nix
index 8d5a6bb65a91a..60ee30177c020 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/openexr/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/openexr/default.nix
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   propagatedBuildInputs = [ ilmbase zlib ];
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;
+  doCheck = false; # fails 1 of 1 tests
 
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://www.openexr.com/;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/openldap/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/openldap/default.nix
index 56118c9bbb2c8..93ba3f15a09c3 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/openldap/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/openldap/default.nix
@@ -34,6 +34,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       ++ stdenv.lib.optional (cyrus_sasl == null) "--without-cyrus-sasl"
       ++ stdenv.lib.optional stdenv.isFreeBSD "--with-pic";
 
+  doCheck = false; # needs a running LDAP server
+
   installFlags = [ "sysconfdir=$(out)/etc" "localstatedir=$(out)/var" ];
 
   # 1. Fixup broken libtool
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/p11-kit/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/p11-kit/default.nix
index a3d4857d57a96..9c66318628793 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/p11-kit/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/p11-kit/default.nix
@@ -30,6 +30,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   installFlags = [ "exampledir=\${out}/etc/pkcs11" ];
 
+  doInstallCheck = false; # probably a bug in this derivation
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = https://p11-glue.freedesktop.org/;
     platforms = platforms.all;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/pcre2/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/pcre2/default.nix
index 9603e45a8b447..2e1ed060acac0 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/pcre2/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/pcre2/default.nix
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   outputs = [ "bin" "dev" "out" "doc" "man" "devdoc" ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails 1 of 3 tests
+
   postFixup = ''
     moveToOutput bin/pcre2-config "$dev"
   '';
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/popt/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/popt/default.nix
index 441da25836d3b..edec0b7f0699f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/popt/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/popt/default.nix
@@ -8,10 +8,12 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "1j2c61nn2n351nhj4d25mnf3vpiddcykq005w2h6kw79dwlysa77";
   };
 
-  patches = if stdenv.isCygwin then [
+  patches = stdenv.lib.optionals stdenv.isCygwin [
     ./1.16-cygwin.patch
     ./1.16-vpath.patch
-  ] else null;
+  ];
+
+  doCheck = false; # fails
 
   meta = {
     description = "Command line option parsing library";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-4.x/4.8/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-4.x/4.8/default.nix
index 10f892bc4d008..c37c59997f643 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-4.x/4.8/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/qt-4.x/4.8/default.nix
@@ -192,6 +192,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sed -i 's/^\(LIBS[[:space:]]*=.*$\)/\1 -lobjc/' ./src/corelib/Makefile.Release
   '';
 
+  doCheck = false; # qwebframe test fails with fontconfig errors
+
   postInstall = ''
     rm -rf $out/tests
   '';
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/sqlcipher/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/sqlcipher/default.nix
index ed19814be34af..fbf7d8df53e37 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/sqlcipher/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/sqlcipher/default.nix
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   CFLAGS = [ "-DSQLITE_ENABLE_COLUMN_METADATA=1" "-DSQLITE_SECURE_DELETE=1" "-DSQLITE_ENABLE_UNLOCK_NOTIFY=1" "-DSQLITE_HAS_CODEC" ];
   LDFLAGS = lib.optional (readline != null) "-lncurses";
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails. requires tcl?
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = http://sqlcipher.net/;
     description = "Full Database Encryption for SQLite";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/tk/8.5.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/tk/8.5.nix
index c3396dcdad227..141f6da14ce49 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/tk/8.5.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/tk/8.5.nix
@@ -8,4 +8,3 @@ callPackage ./generic.nix (args // rec {
   };
 
 })
-
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/tk/8.6.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/tk/8.6.nix
index 666332d45fb87..cd8d42faa9144 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/tk/8.6.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/tk/8.6.nix
@@ -10,4 +10,3 @@ callPackage ./generic.nix (args // rec {
   patches = [ ./different-prefix-with-tcl.patch ] ++ stdenv.lib.optionals stdenv.isDarwin [ ./Fix-bad-install_name-for-libtk8.6.dylib.patch ];
 
 })
-
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/tk/generic.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/tk/generic.nix
index 843c6157479e8..34024b23e270e 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/tk/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/tk/generic.nix
@@ -31,6 +31,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation {
 
   NIX_CFLAGS_LINK = if stdenv.isDarwin then "-lfontconfig" else null;
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails. can't find itself
+
   inherit tcl;
 
   passthru = rec {
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/zeromq/3.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/zeromq/3.x.nix
index 2252f8fe43cc6..009826eef4768 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/zeromq/3.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/zeromq/3.x.nix
@@ -10,6 +10,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ libuuid ];
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails all the tests (ctest)
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     branch = "3";
     homepage = http://www.zeromq.org;
diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/zeromq/4.x.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/zeromq/4.x.nix
index eea0fb727b01d..333a37ba85d97 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/zeromq/4.x.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/zeromq/4.x.nix
@@ -19,6 +19,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sed -i 's,''${PACKAGE_PREFIX_DIR}/,,g' ZeroMQConfig.cmake.in
   '';
 
+  doCheck = false; # fails all the tests (ctest)
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     branch = "4";
     homepage = http://www.zeromq.org;
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