diff --git a/package/poco/poco.mk b/package/poco/poco.mk
index f7d9cdc009..fd8988c881 100644
--- a/package/poco/poco.mk
+++ b/package/poco/poco.mk
@@ -79,9 +79,8 @@ 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) $(MAKE1) POCO_TARGET_OSARCH=$(ARCH) CROSS_COMPILE=$(TARGET_CROSS) \
+	$(TARGET_MAKE_ENV) $(MAKE) POCO_TARGET_OSARCH=$(ARCH) CROSS_COMPILE=$(TARGET_CROSS) \
 		POCO_MYSQL_INCLUDE=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include/mysql \
 		POCO_MYSQL_LIB=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/lib/mysql \
 		POCO_PGSQL_INCLUDE=$(STAGING_DIR)/usr/include/postgresql \