diff --git a/PKGBUILD b/PKGBUILD
index cc7a669f..8f0fd384 100644
--- a/PKGBUILD
+++ b/PKGBUILD
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ conflicts=('archinstall' 'python-archinstall' 'python-archinstall-git')
 build() {
         cd "$startdir"
         python setup.py build
-        make man -C docs
+        PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE=1 make man -C docs
 }
 
 package() {