diff --git a/app-text/tldr/tldr-3.2.0.ebuild b/app-text/tldr/tldr-3.2.0.ebuild
index dce4027d8e..bc86dde4d3 100644
--- a/app-text/tldr/tldr-3.2.0.ebuild
+++ b/app-text/tldr/tldr-3.2.0.ebuild
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ src_prepare() {
 }
 
 src_compile() {
-	emake -C docs
+	use man && emake -C docs
 	distutils-r1_src_compile
 }