diff --git a/gedit-plugins.changes b/gedit-plugins.changes
index 77f02f9..9ab0a9a 100644
--- a/gedit-plugins.changes
+++ b/gedit-plugins.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Sep 29 12:28:02 UTC 2016 - jengelh@inai.de
+
+- Use %_smp_mflags for parallel build.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Sep 18 19:51:39 UTC 2016 - zaitor@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/gedit-plugins.spec b/gedit-plugins.spec
index 957fb85..9cd5676 100644
--- a/gedit-plugins.spec
+++ b/gedit-plugins.spec
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ translation-update-upstream
 
 %build
 %configure
-%__make %{?jobs:-j%jobs}
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
 %makeinstall