diff --git a/lang/rakudo-star/Makefile b/lang/rakudo-star/Makefile
index 91fd044a6285..6bd225a858b7 100644
--- a/lang/rakudo-star/Makefile
+++ b/lang/rakudo-star/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.1 2013/09/13 22:04:07 schmonz Exp $
+# $NetBSD: Makefile,v 1.2 2013/09/20 13:49:13 sno Exp $
 
 DISTNAME=	rakudo-star-2013.08
 CATEGORIES=	lang perl6
@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ HOMEPAGE=	http://rakudo.org/
 COMMENT=	Perl 6 reference implementation
 LICENSE=	artistic-2.0
 
+MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=	no
+
 .include "../../mk/bsd.prefs.mk"
 
 USE_LANGUAGES=		c c++