diff --git a/host-recipes/gcc-cross b/host-recipes/gcc-cross
index b379fdcc..728729cc 100644
--- a/host-recipes/gcc-cross
+++ b/host-recipes/gcc-cross
@@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ configure() {
 
 build() {
 	
-	make all-gcc all-target-libgcc -j{parallelism}
+	make all-gcc all-target-libgcc -j ${parallelism}
 
 }