diff --git a/meta/recipes-support/gnutls/gnutls_3.8.0.bb b/meta/recipes-support/gnutls/gnutls_3.8.0.bb
index 0758eb15a9..eef004efa5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-support/gnutls/gnutls_3.8.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-support/gnutls/gnutls_3.8.0.bb
@@ -66,6 +66,10 @@ do_configure:prepend() {
 	done
 }
 
+do_compile_ptest() {
+    oe_runmake -C tests buildtest-TESTS
+}
+
 do_install:append:class-target() {
         if ${@bb.utils.contains('PACKAGECONFIG', 'fips', 'true', 'false', d)}; then
           install -d ${D}${bindir}/bin
@@ -73,10 +77,6 @@ do_install:append:class-target() {
         fi
 }
 
-do_compile:append() {
-        oe_runmake ${PARALLEL_MAKE} -C tests buildtest-TESTS
-}
-
 PACKAGES =+ "${PN}-dane ${PN}-openssl ${PN}-xx ${PN}-fips"
 
 FILES:${PN}-dev += "${bindir}/gnutls-cli-debug"