diff --git a/core/rend/TexCache.cpp b/core/rend/TexCache.cpp
index 549e817ec..478cdbf47 100644
--- a/core/rend/TexCache.cpp
+++ b/core/rend/TexCache.cpp
@@ -350,7 +350,9 @@ static void deposterizeV(u32* data, u32* out, int w, int h, int l, int u) {
 
 void parallelize(const std::function<void(int,int)> &func, int start, int end, int width /* = 0 */)
 {
-	int tcount = max(1, omp_get_num_procs() - 1);
+	int tcount = omp_get_num_procs() - 1;
+	if (tcount < 1)
+		tcount = 1;
 	tcount = min(tcount, (int)settings.pvr.MaxThreads);
 #pragma omp parallel num_threads(tcount)
 	{
diff --git a/shell/linux/Makefile b/shell/linux/Makefile
index ba1cb5533..f10bcb96f 100644
--- a/shell/linux/Makefile
+++ b/shell/linux/Makefile
@@ -236,9 +236,9 @@ endif
 RZDCY_SRC_DIR = $(LOCAL_PATH)/../../core
 include $(RZDCY_SRC_DIR)/core.mk
 
-LDFLAGS += -g -Wl,-Map,$(notdir $@).map,--gc-sections -Wl,-O3 -Wl,--sort-common
+LDFLAGS += -g -Wl,-Map,$(notdir $@).map,--gc-sections -Wl,-O3 -Wl,--sort-common -fopenmp
 
-CFLAGS += -g -O3 -D RELEASE -c -D USES_HOMEDIR #-D NO_REND
+CFLAGS += -g -O3 -D RELEASE -c -D USES_HOMEDIR -fopenmp #-D NO_REND
 CFLAGS += -frename-registers -fno-strict-aliasing
 CFLAGS += -ffast-math -ftree-vectorize
 
@@ -319,8 +319,7 @@ ifdef USE_PULSEAUDIO
 endif
 
 ifdef HAS_SOFTREND
-    CFLAGS += -fopenmp -msse4.1
-    LDFLAGS += -fopenmp
+    CFLAGS += -msse4.1
 endif
 
 # these are also handled on core.mk, but ignored here