diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/gd/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/gd/default.nix
index 68c713c235e9..5759aa46d13f 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/gd/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/gd/default.nix
@@ -26,6 +26,8 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   postFixup = ''moveToOutput "bin/gdlib-config" $dev'';
 
+  enableParallelBuilding = true;
+
   meta = with stdenv.lib; {
     homepage = https://libgd.github.io/;
     description = "A dynamic image creation library";