diff --git a/gnome-doc-utils-make-parallel.patch b/gnome-doc-utils-make-parallel.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..694a5fc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/gnome-doc-utils-make-parallel.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,63 @@
+From 984063e7a4189b31cff99e61736d01eb5d3906f6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Claude Paroz <claude@2xlibre.net>
+Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 15:13:30 +0000
+Subject: Properly clean mo files (finally fixes #570342)
+
+---
+Index: gnome-doc-utils-0.18.0/tools/gnome-doc-utils.make
+===================================================================
+--- gnome-doc-utils-0.18.0.orig/tools/gnome-doc-utils.make
++++ gnome-doc-utils-0.18.0/tools/gnome-doc-utils.make
+@@ -266,6 +266,13 @@ _DOC_POFILES = $(if $(DOC_MODULE)$(DOC_I
+ .PHONY: po
+ po: $(_DOC_POFILES)
+ 
++## @ _DOC_MOFILES
++## The .mo files used for translating the document
++_DOC_MOFILES = $(patsubst %.po,%.mo,$(_DOC_POFILES))
++
++.PHONY: mo
++mo: $(_DOC_MOFILES)
++
+ ## @ _DOC_LC_MODULES
+ ## The top-level documentation files in all other locales
+ _DOC_LC_MODULES = $(if $(DOC_MODULE),						\
+@@ -332,16 +339,19 @@ $(_DOC_POFILES):
+ 	    $(_xml2po) -m $(_xml2po_mode) -e -u $(notdir $@) $$docs); \
+ 	fi
+ 
++$(_DOC_MOFILES): %.mo: %.po
++	msgfmt -o $@ $<
++
+ # FIXME: fix the dependancy
+ # FIXME: hook xml2po up
+-$(_DOC_LC_DOCS) : $(_DOC_POFILES)
++$(_DOC_LC_DOCS) : $(_DOC_MOFILES)
+ $(_DOC_LC_DOCS) : $(_DOC_C_DOCS)
+ 	if ! test -d $(dir $@); then mkdir $(dir $@); fi
+ 	if [ -f "C/$(notdir $@)" ]; then d="../"; else d="$(_DOC_ABS_SRCDIR)/"; fi; \
+-	po="$(dir $@)$(patsubst %/$(notdir $@),%,$@).po"; \
+-	if [ -f "$${po}" ]; then po="../$${po}"; else po="$(_DOC_ABS_SRCDIR)/$${po}"; fi; \
++	mo="$(dir $@)$(patsubst %/$(notdir $@),%,$@).mo"; \
++	if [ -f "$${mo}" ]; then mo="../$${mo}"; else mo="$(_DOC_ABS_SRCDIR)/$${mo}"; fi; \
+ 	(cd $(dir $@) && \
+-	  $(_xml2po) -m $(_xml2po_mode) -e -p "$${po}" \
++	  $(_xml2po) -m $(_xml2po_mode) -e -t "$${mo}" \
+ 	    "$${d}C/$(notdir $@)" > $(notdir $@).tmp && \
+ 	    cp $(notdir $@).tmp $(notdir $@) && rm -f $(notdir $@).tmp)
+ 
+@@ -386,12 +396,14 @@ clean-doc-omf: ; rm -f $(_DOC_OMF_DB) $(
+ clean-doc-dsk: ; rm -f $(_DOC_DSK_DB) $(_DOC_DSK_HTML)
+ clean-doc-lc:
+ 	rm -f $(_DOC_LC_DOCS)
++	rm -f $(_DOC_MOFILES)
+ 	@list='$(_DOC_POFILES)'; for po in $$list; do \
+ 	  if ! test "$$po" -ef "$(srcdir)/$$po"; then \
+ 	    echo "rm -f $$po"; \
+ 	    rm -f "$$po"; \
+ 	  fi; \
+ 	done
++#	.xml2.po.mo cleaning is obsolete as of 0.18.1 and could be removed in 0.20.x
+ 	@for lc in C $(_DOC_REAL_LINGUAS); do \
+ 	  if test -f "$$lc/.xml2po.mo"; then \
+ 	    echo "rm -f $$lc/.xml2po.mo"; \
diff --git a/gnome-doc-utils.changes b/gnome-doc-utils.changes
index d6ddc0a..37a5256 100644
--- a/gnome-doc-utils.changes
+++ b/gnome-doc-utils.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Nov 25 13:59:03 CET 2009 - dimstar@opensuse.org
+
+- Add gnome-doc-utils-make-parallel.patch to solve parallel build
+  failures (patch taken from upstream git).
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Sep 28 17:08:42 CEST 2009 - vuntz@opensuse.org
 
diff --git a/gnome-doc-utils.spec b/gnome-doc-utils.spec
index 5e6838e..b081f20 100644
--- a/gnome-doc-utils.spec
+++ b/gnome-doc-utils.spec
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ Summary:        A Collection of Documentation Utilities for GNOME
 Url:            http://www.gnome.org
 Group:          System/GUI/GNOME
 Source:         ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/gnome-doc-utils/0.8/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
+# PATCH-FIx-UPSTREAM gnome-doc-utils-make-parallel.patch bgo#570342 dimstar@opensuse.org -- Enable parallel build (make -j<n>)
+Patch0:         gnome-doc-utils-make-parallel.patch
 BuildRequires:  docbook_4
 BuildRequires:  fdupes
 BuildRequires:  intltool
@@ -92,6 +94,7 @@ suitable translatable pieces.
 %lang_package
 %prep
 %setup -q
+%patch0 -p1
 translation-update-upstream
 
 %build