diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/libb64/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/libb64/default.nix
index 81ba4263a1d..987a36cd79f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/libb64/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/libb64/default.nix
@@ -19,7 +19,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
       url = "https://github.com/libb64/libb64/commit/4fe47c052e9123da8f751545deb48be08c3411f6.patch";
       sha256 = "18b3np3gpyzimqmk6001riqv5n70wfbclky6zzsrvj5zl1dj4ljf";
     })
-  ];
+  ] ++ lib.optional (stdenv.buildPlatform != stdenv.hostPlatform) (fetchpatch {
+    name = "0001-example-Do-not-run-the-tests.patch";
+    url = "https://cgit.openembedded.org/meta-openembedded/plain/meta-oe/recipes-support/libb64/libb64/0001-example-Do-not-run-the-tests.patch?id=484e0de1e4ee107f21ae2a5c5f976ed987978baf";
+    sha256 = "sha256-KTsiIWJe66BKlu/A43FWfW0XAu4E7lWX/RY4NITRrm4=";
+  });
 
   enableParallelBuilding = true;