diff --git a/doc/makepanda/maketarball.py b/doc/makepanda/maketarball.py
index c4f034c27a..28c565c7e0 100755
--- a/doc/makepanda/maketarball.py
+++ b/doc/makepanda/maketarball.py
@@ -188,7 +188,6 @@ writefile(TARDIR+'/panda3d.spec',SPEC)
 oscmd("tar --exclude CVS -chzf "+TARDIR+".tar.gz "+TARDIR)
 oscmd("rm -rf "+TARDIR)
 
-TARDIR="panda3d-"+VERSION.replace(".","-")
 oscmd("rm -rf "+TARDIR)
 oscmd("mkdir -p "+TARDIR)
 oscmd("mkdir -p "+TARDIR+"/thirdparty")