diff --git a/vars/build.vars b/vars/build.vars
index 67d74c2..4164152 100644
--- a/vars/build.vars
+++ b/vars/build.vars
@@ -458,6 +458,7 @@ LIB_PACKAGES_PREFIX="${PREFIX_NATIVE}";
 : ${PKG_FONTCONFIG_VERSION:=2.11.95};
 : ${PKG_FONTCONFIG_URL:=https://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-${PKG_FONTCONFIG_VERSION}.tar.bz2};
 : ${PKG_FONTCONFIG_CFLAGS_CONFIGURE_EXTRA:=-I${PREFIX_NATIVE}/include/freetype2};
+: ${PKG_FONTCONFIG_CONFIGURE_ARGS_EXTRA:=--disable-docs};
 : ${PKG_LIBXFT_SHA256SUM:=7fce32b92dcb7b2869bed567af2abc7bbad0d5d6fcf471b8a3e137964a31bbbd};
 : ${PKG_LIBXFT_VERSION:=2.3.1};
 : ${PKG_LIBXFT_URL:=https://www.x.org/releases/individual/lib/libXft-${PKG_LIBXFT_VERSION}.tar.bz2};