diff --git a/srcpkgs/findutils/template b/srcpkgs/findutils/template
index 0ea68fa10a..6dd846bd66 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/findutils/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/findutils/template
@@ -22,6 +22,13 @@ alternatives="
 post_extract() {
 	sed -i '/SUBDIRS/s/locate//' Makefile.in
 }
+do_check() {
+	# LFS reccomends disabling this due to to the possibility of looping forever on some machines
+	# see: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter06/findutils.html
+	sed -i 's/test-lock..EXEEXT.//' tests/Makefile.in
+
+	make check
+}
 post_configure() {
 	make -C locate dblocation.texi
 }