diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/mixxx/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/mixxx/default.nix
index 6f0d34b870aa..a3df5196cdc0 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/mixxx/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/mixxx/default.nix
@@ -110,8 +110,6 @@ mkDerivation rec {
     wavpack
   ];
 
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
   qtWrapperArgs = [
     "--set LOCALE_ARCHIVE ${glibcLocales}/lib/locale/locale-archive"
   ];
diff --git a/pkgs/applications/audio/tageditor/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/audio/tageditor/default.nix
index 02e23084cf53..320a26b8172d 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/audio/tageditor/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/audio/tageditor/default.nix
@@ -45,8 +45,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     tagparser
   ];
 
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
-
   meta = with pkgs.lib; {
     homepage = "https://github.com/Martchus/tageditor";
     description = "A tag editor with Qt GUI and command-line interface supporting MP4/M4A/AAC (iTunes), ID3, Vorbis, Opus, FLAC and Matroska";
diff --git a/pkgs/development/compilers/terra/default.nix b/pkgs/development/compilers/terra/default.nix
index ac1851a683bf..3174744fdde8 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/compilers/terra/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/compilers/terra/default.nix
@@ -50,7 +50,6 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
   ] ++ lib.optional enableCUDA "-DTERRA_ENABLE_CUDA=ON";
 
   doCheck = true;
-  enableParallelBuilding = true;
   hardeningDisable = [ "fortify" ];
   outputs = [ "bin" "dev" "out" "static" ];
 
diff --git a/pkgs/test/cuda/cuda-library-samples/generic.nix b/pkgs/test/cuda/cuda-library-samples/generic.nix
index f1ce243bfa6a..350decef22dc 100644
--- a/pkgs/test/cuda/cuda-library-samples/generic.nix
+++ b/pkgs/test/cuda/cuda-library-samples/generic.nix
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ let
     version = lib.strings.substring 0 7 rev + "-" + lib.versions.majorMinor cudatoolkit.version;
     nativeBuildInputs = [ cmake addOpenGLRunpath ];
     buildInputs = [ cudatoolkit ];
-    enableParallelBuilding = true;
     postFixup = ''
       for exe in $out/bin/*; do
         addOpenGLRunpath $exe