diff --git a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/nbench-byte/nbench-byte_2.2.3.bb b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/nbench-byte/nbench-byte_2.2.3.bb
index 2eedd7e313..56272d9852 100644
--- a/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/nbench-byte/nbench-byte_2.2.3.bb
+++ b/meta-oe/recipes-benchmark/nbench-byte/nbench-byte_2.2.3.bb
@@ -13,6 +13,8 @@ SRC_URI = "http://www.tux.org/~mayer/linux/${BP}.tar.gz \
 SRC_URI[md5sum] = "285dfab361080759d477ea1fe7d3093a"
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "723dd073f80e9969639eb577d2af4b540fc29716b6eafdac488d8f5aed9101ac"
 
+EXTRA_OEMAKE = "-e MAKEFLAGS="
+
 TARGET_CC_ARCH += "${CFLAGS} ${LDFLAGS}"
 do_compile() {
     oe_runmake