diff --git a/packages/devel/eggdbus-host/build b/packages/devel/eggdbus-host/build
index 05d64e1a8f..ff4a5a287f 100755
--- a/packages/devel/eggdbus-host/build
+++ b/packages/devel/eggdbus-host/build
@@ -24,6 +24,9 @@
 
 $SCRIPTS/unpack eggdbus
 
+# dont build parallel
+  MAKEFLAGS=-j1
+
 EGGDBUS_DIR=`ls -d $BUILD/eggdbus-[0-9]*`
 
 setup_toolchain host
diff --git a/packages/devel/eggdbus/build b/packages/devel/eggdbus/build
index e8b466950d..86e68e8eff 100755
--- a/packages/devel/eggdbus/build
+++ b/packages/devel/eggdbus/build
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@
 
 . config/options $1
 
+# dont build parallel
+  MAKEFLAGS=-j1
+
 cd $PKG_BUILD
 mkdir -p .build-target