diff --git a/gnu-cobol.changes b/gnu-cobol.changes
index dde8776..56d1b4d 100644
--- a/gnu-cobol.changes
+++ b/gnu-cobol.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat May 12 05:05:29 UTC 2018 - aloisio@gmx.com
+
+- Enable parallel build and tests
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue May  8 22:14:34 UTC 2018 - aloisio@gmx.com
 
diff --git a/gnu-cobol.spec b/gnu-cobol.spec
index 8327b15..b46287d 100644
--- a/gnu-cobol.spec
+++ b/gnu-cobol.spec
@@ -81,8 +81,7 @@ dos2unix ABOUT-NLS AUTHORS COPYING COPYING.DOC ChangeLog NEWS \
 %build
 %configure \
 	--enable-static=no
-# build is not parallel safe
-make -j1
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
 
 %install
 %make_install
@@ -91,7 +90,7 @@ rm %{buildroot}%{_libdir}/libcob.la
 %find_lang gnucobol
 
 %check
-make check
+make %{?_smp_mflags} check
 
 %post
 %install_info --info-dir=%{_infodir} %{_infodir}/gnucobol.info.gz