diff --git a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc.inc b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc.inc
index fe9f8bab55..272fcb6273 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-core/eglibc/eglibc.inc
@@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "arm"
 # eglibc uses PARALLELMFLAGS variable to pass parallel build info so transfer
 # PARALLEL_MAKE into PARALLELMFLAGS and empty out PARALLEL_MAKE
 EGLIBCPARALLELISM := "PARALLELMFLAGS="${PARALLEL_MAKE}""
+EXTRA_OEMAKE[vardepsexclude] += "EGLIBCPARALLELISM"
 EXTRA_OEMAKE += ${EGLIBCPARALLELISM}
 PARALLEL_MAKE = ""