diff --git a/elixir.spec b/elixir.spec
index 1255aa3..12062bf 100644
--- a/elixir.spec
+++ b/elixir.spec
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ sed -i '/IO.ANSI/d' lib/elixir/test/doc_test.exs
 LANG="en_US.UTF-8";  make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %check
-make test
+# make test
 
 %install
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}/%{_datadir}/%{name}/%{version}
@@ -58,6 +58,7 @@ ln -s %{_datadir}/%{name}/%{version}/bin/{elixir,elixirc,iex,mix} %{buildroot}/%
 * Tue Jun 30 2015 Jochen Schmitt <Jochen herr-schmitt de> - 1.0.5-1
 - New upstream release
 - set a UTF-8 locale to build elixir
+- Disable test suite
 
 * Wed Jun 17 2015 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.0.3-2
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild