diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/gnupg/gnupg_2.4.4.bb b/meta/recipes-support/gnupg/gnupg_2.4.4.bb
index 5b9869b4f3..fff7d8c6da 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/gnupg/gnupg_2.4.4.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/gnupg/gnupg_2.4.4.bb
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-ldap \
 		--with-readline=${STAGING_LIBDIR}/.. \
 		--with-mailprog=${sbindir}/sendmail \
 		--enable-gpg-is-gpg2 \
+		--disable-tests \
                "
 # yat2m can be found from recipe-sysroot-native non-deterministically with different versioning otherwise
 CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_YAT2M=./yat2m"