diff --git a/pkgs/development/tools/simavr/default.nix b/pkgs/development/tools/simavr/default.nix
index 82c2c131f07..9fa6b8b5716 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/tools/simavr/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/tools/simavr/default.nix
@@ -4,7 +4,6 @@
 stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   name = "simavr-${version}";
   version = "1.5";
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
 
   src = fetchFromGitHub {
     owner = "buserror";
@@ -13,6 +12,9 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     sha256 = "0b2lh6l2niv80dmbm9xkamvnivkbmqw6v97sy29afalrwfxylxla";
   };
 
+  # ld: cannot find -lsimavr
+  enableParallelBuilding = false;
+
   buildFlags = "AVR_ROOT=${avrgcclibc}/avr SIMAVR_VERSION=${version}";
   installFlags = buildFlags + " DESTDIR=$(out)";