diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 28f3eb0..9f7cff4 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -413,9 +413,15 @@ int main(void){
 #endif
 }
 EOF
-if compile_prog "" "" "nolibc support"; then
-  liburing_nolibc="yes"
-fi
+# Temporarily disable nolibc because false positives exist and compilation may
+# fail later. The issue is that compile_prog does not use the CFLAGS modified
+# for nolibc, so it cannot detect when nolibc won't work (e.g. due to the gcc
+# stack protector requiring __stack_chk_fail_local from libc on i686).
+#
+# if compile_prog "" "" "nolibc support"; then
+#   liburing_nolibc="yes"
+# fi
+liburing_nolibc="no"
 print_config "nolibc support" "$liburing_nolibc";
 #############################################################################