diff --git a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gobject-introspection/package.py b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gobject-introspection/package.py
index 294d1ba46e779ce8444b34705ade5788960b4680..20823fd77fe98e78417adb816acfde186e2221bb 100644
--- a/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gobject-introspection/package.py
+++ b/var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/gobject-introspection/package.py
@@ -73,3 +73,7 @@ def install(self, spec, prefix):
 
     def setup_build_environment(self, env):
         env.set('SPACK_SBANG', "%s/bin/sbang" % spack_root)
+
+    @property
+    def parallel(self):
+        return not self.spec.satisfies('%fj')