diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/sysklogd.inc b/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/sysklogd.inc
index f789c54d22..1e363db6e8 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/sysklogd.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/sysklogd/sysklogd.inc
@@ -25,6 +25,8 @@ SRC_URI_append_e500v2 = " file://no-vectorization.patch"
 INITSCRIPT_NAME = "syslog"
 CONFFILES_${PN} = "${sysconfdir}/syslog.conf.${BPN}"
 
+EXTRA_OEMAKE = "-e MAKEFLAGS="
+
 CFLAGS_append = " -DSYSV"
 
 do_install () {