diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_1.8.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_1.8.bb
index 9c218fb..5356431 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_1.8.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-extended/libimobiledevice/libplist_1.8.bb
@@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=ebb5c50ab7cab4baeffba14977030c07 \
 
 DEPENDS = "libxml2 glib-2.0 swig python"
 
+PARALLEL_MAKE = ""
+
 inherit cmake pkgconfig
 
 SRC_URI = "http://www.libimobiledevice.org/downloads/libplist-${PV}.tar.bz2"