diff --git a/flake.nix b/flake.nix
index 215e135081..abbc8f20fc 100644
--- a/flake.nix
+++ b/flake.nix
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@
           packages = {
             default = self'.packages.pinocchio;
             pinocchio = pkgs.python3Packages.pinocchio.overrideAttrs (_: {
+              # avoid SIGTRAP on macos github runners in pinocchio-example-py-casadi-quadrotor-ocp
+              enableParallelChecking = pkgs.stdenv.isLinux;
               src = pkgs.lib.fileset.toSource {
                 root = ./.;
                 fileset = pkgs.lib.fileset.unions [