diff --git a/tools/profiler/Makefile.in b/tools/profiler/Makefile.in
index ece1c09a9a6..fdb3445dfa0 100644
--- a/tools/profiler/Makefile.in
+++ b/tools/profiler/Makefile.in
@@ -69,6 +69,8 @@ SHARED_LIBRARY_LIBS += \
   $(NULL)
 
 export::
+	# Avoid building libunwind documentation
+	$(topsrcdir)/tools/profiler/libunwind/dont_build_docs.sh $(DEPTH)/tools/profiler/libunwind/src/doc/Makefile
 	$(call SUBMAKE,,libunwind/src)
 
 distclean::
diff --git a/tools/profiler/libunwind/dont_build_docs.sh b/tools/profiler/libunwind/dont_build_docs.sh
new file mode 100755
index 00000000000..f77ff879970
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tools/profiler/libunwind/dont_build_docs.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# Edit the doc Makefile to just echo the commands
+sed -e 's/latex2man/echo/' -e 's/pdflatex/echo/' -i "$1"