diff --git a/pkgs/by-name/gu/gumbo/package.nix b/pkgs/by-name/gu/gumbo/package.nix
index 21886b96e9ed..d7506c58c544 100644
--- a/pkgs/by-name/gu/gumbo/package.nix
+++ b/pkgs/by-name/gu/gumbo/package.nix
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   nativeBuildInputs = [ autoreconfHook ];
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   meta = with lib; {
     description = "C99 HTML parsing algorithm";
     homepage = "https://codeberg.org/gumbo-parser/gumbo-parser";