diff --git a/guile.changes b/guile.changes
index b1a4f70..41894de 100644
--- a/guile.changes
+++ b/guile.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Jan 22 12:59:58 UTC 2021 - Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
+
+- Skip test-stack-overflow on qemu builds
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Jan  9 22:11:42 UTC 2021 - Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
 
diff --git a/guile.spec b/guile.spec
index 5760edd..db303d1 100644
--- a/guile.spec
+++ b/guile.spec
@@ -106,6 +106,11 @@ linked in as a library when building extensible programs.
 # remove broken prebuilt objects
 rm -r prebuilt/32-bit-big-endian
 
+%if 0%{?qemu_user_space_build}
+# QEMU ignores rlimit requests for setting RLIMIT_AS
+echo exit 77 > test-suite/standalone/test-stack-overflow
+%endif
+
 %build
 %configure \
   --disable-static \