diff --git a/packages/python/build.sh b/packages/python/build.sh
index ea0e934da8..11543763c4 100644
--- a/packages/python/build.sh
+++ b/packages/python/build.sh
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@ TERMUX_PKG_REPLACES="python-dev"
 # Let "python3" will be alias to this package.
 TERMUX_PKG_PROVIDES="python3"
 
+# https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/15908
+TERMUX_MAKE_PROCESSES=1
+
 # Set ac_cv_func_wcsftime=no to avoid errors such as "character U+ca0025 is not in range [U+0000; U+10ffff]"
 # when executing e.g. "from time import time, strftime, localtime; print(strftime(str('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M'), localtime()))"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="ac_cv_file__dev_ptmx=yes ac_cv_file__dev_ptc=no ac_cv_func_wcsftime=no"
diff --git a/packages/python/disable-parallel-build.patch b/packages/python/disable-parallel-build.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5c0695af2b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/python/disable-parallel-build.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+https://github.com/termux/termux-packages/issues/15908
+
+--- a/setup.py
++++ b/setup.py
+@@ -306,8 +306,6 @@
+         self.failed_on_import = []
+         self.missing = []
+         self.disabled_configure = []
+-        if '-j' in os.environ.get('MAKEFLAGS', ''):
+-            self.parallel = True
+ 
+     def add(self, ext):
+         self.extensions.append(ext)