diff --git a/srcpkgs/shared-mime-info/template b/srcpkgs/shared-mime-info/template
index 23cb5175592..9afe3533fd3 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/shared-mime-info/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/shared-mime-info/template
@@ -12,3 +12,4 @@ license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://freedesktop.org/Software/shared-mime-info"
 distfiles="http://freedesktop.org/~hadess/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.xz"
 checksum=5c0133ec4e228e41bdf52f726d271a2d821499c2ab97afd3aa3d6cf43efcdc83
+disable_parallel_build=yes