diff --git a/srcpkgs/gawk/template b/srcpkgs/gawk/template
index 0a79c2ca2c..b922097b01 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/gawk/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/gawk/template
@@ -21,6 +21,11 @@ alternatives="
 pre_check() {
 	vsed -i 's/done | more/done/g' test/Makefile
 
+	# This fixes tests on glibc, relevant tests on musl are disabled
+	# because the locale command doesn't exist.
+	vsed -i 's/en_US.ISO-8859-1//' test/localenl.sh
+	vsed -i '/^LC_ALL=en_US.ISO-8859-1 passed$/d' test/localenl.ok
+
 	case "$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE" in
 		*-musl)
 			vsed -i '/testext/d' test/Makefile