diff --git a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-4.8.6.inc b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-4.8.6.inc
index ae6692b50a..924a6ad65d 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-4.8.6.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-qt/qt4/qt4-4.8.6.inc
@@ -31,6 +31,11 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "8b14dd91b52862e09b8e6a963507b74bc2580787d171feda197badfa70
 
 S = "${WORKDIR}/qt-everywhere-opensource-src-${PV}"
 
+# disable webkit for mips64 n32 temporarily that fails to compile,
+# qt upstream defect:
+# https://bugreports.qt-project.org/browse/QTBUG-39224
+QT_CONFIG_FLAGS_append_mips64 = "${@bb.utils.contains("TUNE_FEATURES", "n32", " -no-webkit", "" ,d)}"
+
 FILES_${QT_BASE_NAME}-tools_append     = " ${bindir}/qml ${bindir}/qmlplugindump"
 FILES_${QT_BASE_NAME}-tools-dbg_append = " ${bindir}/.debug/qml ${bindir}/.debug/qmlplugindump"