diff --git a/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.180.bb b/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.180.bb
index 9f8bfc2..61e46a4 100644
--- a/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.180.bb
+++ b/poky/meta/recipes-devtools/elfutils/elfutils_0.180.bb
@@ -114,6 +114,8 @@
 
 # The package contains symlinks that trip up insane
 INSANE_SKIP_${MLPREFIX}libdw = "dev-so"
+# The nlist binary in the tests uses explicitly minimal compiler flags
+INSANE_SKIP_${PN}-ptest += "ldflags"
 
 # avoid stripping some generated binaries otherwise some of the tests such as test-nlist,
 # run-strip-reloc.sh, run-strip-strmerge.sh and so on will fail