diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/intepreter.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/intepreter.nix
index 8861a0ed0456..95ddc5a543cf 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/intepreter.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/perl/intepreter.nix
@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {
 
   dontAddPrefix = !crossCompiling;
 
-  enableParallelBuilding = false;
+  enableParallelBuilding = !crossCompiling;
 
   # perl includes the build date, the uname of the build system and the
   # username of the build user in some files.