diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/xalanc/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/xalanc/default.nix
index b757b737f976..ba1e1a4c662d 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/xalanc/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/xalanc/default.nix
@@ -22,6 +22,15 @@ in stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
 
   buildInputs = [ xercesc getopt ];
 
+  # Parallel build fails as:
+  #   c++ ... -c ... ExecutionContext.cpp
+  #   ProblemListenerBase.hpp:28:10: fatal error: LocalMsgIndex.hpp: No such file or directory
+  # The build failure happens due to missing intra-project dependencies
+  # against generated headers. Future 1.12 version dropped
+  # autotools-based build system. Let's disable parallel builds until
+  # next release.
+  enableParallelBuilding = false;
+
   meta = {
     homepage = "http://xalan.apache.org/";
     description = "A XSLT processor for transforming XML documents";