diff --git a/packages/mediacenter/xbmc-addon-xvdr/package.mk b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc-addon-xvdr/package.mk
index 6d9450ee68..0b0ebf695a 100644
--- a/packages/mediacenter/xbmc-addon-xvdr/package.mk
+++ b/packages/mediacenter/xbmc-addon-xvdr/package.mk
@@ -36,3 +36,8 @@ PKG_AUTORECONF="yes"
 PKG_CONFIGURE_OPTS_TARGET="--prefix=/usr/share/xbmc"
 
 export CXXFLAGS="$CXXFLAGS -DZLIB_INTERNAL=1"
+
+pre_make_target() {
+  # dont build parallel
+  MAKEFLAGS=-j1
+}