diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index cd58317494e..2947a033995 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -1131,7 +1131,6 @@ else
     '-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types',
     '-Werror=int-conversion',
     '-Wimplicit-fallthrough',
-    '-Werror=thread-safety',
     '-Wno-missing-field-initializers',
     '-Wno-format-truncation',
     '-fno-math-errno',
@@ -1143,6 +1142,10 @@ else
   if not (cc.get_id() == 'gcc' and host_machine.system() == 'windows')
     _trial += ['-Werror=format', '-Wformat-security']
   endif
+  # FreeBSD annotated <pthread.h> but Mesa isn't ready
+  if not (cc.get_id() == 'clang' and host_machine.system() == 'freebsd')
+    _trial += ['-Werror=thread-safety']
+  endif
   foreach a : _trial
     if cc.has_argument(a)
       c_args += a