diff --git a/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/half_parallell.rc b/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/half_parallell.rc
index 566e829..2a5e23a 100644
--- a/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/half_parallell.rc
+++ b/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/half_parallell.rc
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 nr_cpu=$(lscpu -p | egrep -v '^#' | wc -l)
-MAKEOPTS="-j$(( ${nr_cpu}/2 ))"
+export MAKEOPTS="-j$(( ${nr_cpu}/2 ))"
diff --git a/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/no_parallell.rc b/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/no_parallell.rc
index 1b43095..2c740b7 100644
--- a/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/no_parallell.rc
+++ b/profiles/targets/desktop/bashrc/no_parallell.rc
@@ -1 +1 @@
-MAKEOPTS="-j1"
+export MAKEOPTS="-j1"