diff --git a/srcpkgs/findutils/template b/srcpkgs/findutils/template
index 2155bdd80bd..dac19bad8de 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/findutils/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/findutils/template
@@ -25,7 +25,9 @@ post_extract() {
 pre_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
+	vsed -i 's/test-lock..EXEEXT.//' gnulib-tests/Makefile
+	# help-version is broken because we do not build locate
+	vsed -i "/tests\/misc\/help-version.sh/d" Makefile
 }
 post_configure() {
 	make -C locate dblocation.texi