diff --git a/tools/build/Makefile-common-macros.in b/tools/build/Makefile-common-macros.in
index 6fa83b71e35..13db9428bbf 100644
--- a/tools/build/Makefile-common-macros.in
+++ b/tools/build/Makefile-common-macros.in
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # Copyright (C) 2015 The Perl Foundation
 
+.NOTPARALLEL:
+
 PERL5   = @perl@
 MKPATH  = @mkpath@
 CHMOD   = @chmod@