diff --git a/src/widgets/styles/styles.pri b/src/widgets/styles/styles.pri
index dc7f622d73..cf7ee5a0a4 100644
--- a/src/widgets/styles/styles.pri
+++ b/src/widgets/styles/styles.pri
@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ contains( styles, all ) {
 	styles = mac windows windowsxp windowsvista
 }
 
-# TODO
+# TODO, re-enable qmacstyle in tests/auto/widgets/styles/sytles.pro when done
 styles -= mac
 
 x11{
diff --git a/tests/auto/widgets/styles/styles.pro b/tests/auto/widgets/styles/styles.pro
index 7e931582db..20a59dea45 100644
--- a/tests/auto/widgets/styles/styles.pro
+++ b/tests/auto/widgets/styles/styles.pro
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 TEMPLATE=subdirs
 SUBDIRS=\
-   qmacstyle \
+# disabled in src/widgets/styles/styles.pri, so disable the test as well
+#   qmacstyle \
    qstyle \
    qstyleoption \
    qstylesheetstyle \