diff --git a/infer/src/integration/Driver.ml b/infer/src/integration/Driver.ml
index cd9435813..21a9a477e 100644
--- a/infer/src/integration/Driver.ml
+++ b/infer/src/integration/Driver.ml
@@ -584,11 +584,6 @@ let run_prologue mode =
   if Config.debug_mode then L.environment_info "Driver mode:@\n%a@." pp_mode mode ;
   if CLOpt.is_originator then (
     if Config.dump_duplicate_symbols then reset_duplicates_file () ;
-    (* infer might be called from a Makefile and itself uses `make` to run the analysis in parallel,
-       but cannot communicate with the parent make command. Since infer won't interfere with them
-       anyway, pretend that we are not called from another make to prevent make falling back to a
-       mono-threaded execution. *)
-    Unix.unsetenv "MAKEFLAGS" ;
     (* disable the Buck daemon as changes in the Buck or infer config may be missed otherwise *)
     Unix.putenv ~key:"NO_BUCKD" ~data:"1" ) ;
   ()
diff --git a/infer/tests/build_systems/make/Makefile b/infer/tests/build_systems/make/Makefile
index 760c380cd..e337ffb6b 100644
--- a/infer/tests/build_systems/make/Makefile
+++ b/infer/tests/build_systems/make/Makefile
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ include $(TESTS_DIR)/clang.make
 
 infer-out/report.json: $(CLANG_DEPS) $(SOURCES) $(HEADERS)
 	$(QUIET)$(call silent_on_success,Testing make clang and javac integration,\
-	  $(TESTLOCK) $(INFER_BIN) --dump-duplicate-symbols --project-root $(TESTS_DIR) -- \
-	    make -C ../codetoanalyze/make clean all)
+	  $(TESTLOCK) sh -c "$(MAKE) -C ../codetoanalyze/make clean && \
+	  $(INFER_BIN) --dump-duplicate-symbols --project-root $(TESTS_DIR) -- \
+	  	$(MAKE) -C ../codetoanalyze/make all")
 	$(QUIET)$(call check_no_duplicates,infer-out/duplicates.txt)
diff --git a/infer/tests/build_systems/utf8_in_pwd/Makefile b/infer/tests/build_systems/utf8_in_pwd/Makefile
index b40058421..892b744b3 100644
--- a/infer/tests/build_systems/utf8_in_pwd/Makefile
+++ b/infer/tests/build_systems/utf8_in_pwd/Makefile
@@ -92,8 +92,7 @@ infer-out-javac/report.json: $(JAVA_DEPS) $(JAVAC_DIR)
 infer-out-make/report.json: $(CLANG_DEPS) $(MAKE_DIR)
 	$(QUIET)cd $(MAKE_DIR) && \
 	$(call silent_on_success,Testing Infer/make is immune to UTF-8 in PWD,\
-	  $(INFER_BIN) --results-dir $(CURDIR)/$(@D) -- \
-	    make clean all)
+	  $(TESTLOCK) sh -c "$(MAKE) clean && $(INFER_BIN) --results-dir $(CURDIR)/$(@D) -- $(MAKE) all")
 
 issues-%.exp.test: infer-out-%/report.json $(INFER_BIN)
 	$(QUIET)$(INFER_BIN) report -q $(INFERPRINT_OPTIONS) $@ \