diff --git a/package/poco/poco.mk b/package/poco/poco.mk
index 4b82c500a5..90dfb34340 100644
--- a/package/poco/poco.mk
+++ b/package/poco/poco.mk
@@ -57,8 +57,9 @@ define POCO_CONFIGURE_CMDS
 		--no-samples)
 endef
 
+# Use $(MAKE1) to avoid failures on heavilly parallel machines (e.g. -j25)
 define POCO_BUILD_CMDS
-	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) POCO_TARGET_OSARCH=$(ARCH) CROSS_COMPILE=$(TARGET_CROSS) \
+	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE1) POCO_TARGET_OSARCH=$(ARCH) CROSS_COMPILE=$(TARGET_CROSS) \
 		MYSQL_LIBDIR=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib/mysql \
 		MYSQL_INCDIR=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include/mysql \
 		DEFAULT_TARGET=$(POCO_MAKE_TARGET) -C $(@D)