diff --git a/foma.changes b/foma.changes
index 4d7aa76..d089033 100644
--- a/foma.changes
+++ b/foma.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed May 17 09:33:31 UTC 2017 - tchvatal@suse.com
+
+- Build in single thread, interim deps are not properly stated in
+  the Makefile
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed May 17 09:13:27 UTC 2017 - tchvatal@suse.com
 
diff --git a/foma.spec b/foma.spec
index b807154..7c1ddf8 100644
--- a/foma.spec
+++ b/foma.spec
@@ -63,7 +63,8 @@ Finite-state C library development files and headers for %{name}.
 %setup -q -n %{name}-%{version}/%{name}
 
 %build
-make %{?_smp_mflags} \
+# hand written Makefile that gets to be quite PITA
+make -j1 \
 	CFLAGS="%{optflags} -D_GNU_SOURCE -std=c99 -fPIC" \
 	LDFLAGS="-lreadline -lz"