diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
index ae99e2c..b115e46 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/ncurses/ncurses.inc
@@ -29,6 +29,8 @@ BUILD_CPPFLAGS += "-D_GNU_SOURCE"
 # natives don't generally look in base_libdir
 base_libdir_virtclass-native = "${libdir}"
 
+PARALLEL_MAKE = ""
+
 # Helper function for do_configure to allow multiple configurations
 # $1 the directory to run configure in
 # $@ the arguments to pass to configure