diff -ru a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
--- a/configure.ac	2015-02-04 15:57:04.000000000 +0100
+++ b/configure.ac	2017-04-25 11:57:33.706753890 +0200
@@ -574,8 +574,14 @@
 AC_PATH_PROGS(TEST, test)
 PKG_PROG_PKG_CONFIG
 
-dnl xsltproc is required for building the man pages
-AC_PATH_PROGS(XSLTPROC, xsltproc)
+AC_ARG_ENABLE([doc],
+	AS_HELP_STRING([--enable-doc],[Build documentation]
+))
+AS_IF([test "x$enable_doc" = "xyes"], [
+	AC_PATH_PROGS(XSLTPROC, xsltproc)
+])
+AM_CONDITIONAL([BUILD_DOC], [test "x$enable_doc" = "xyes"] )
+AC_SUBST(XSLTPROC)
 
 dnl ************************************************************************
 dnl Check whether non-root user can chown.
diff -ru a/doc/Makefile.am b/doc/Makefile.am
--- a/doc/Makefile.am	2015-02-04 15:57:04.000000000 +0100
+++ b/doc/Makefile.am	2017-04-25 11:58:35.459257834 +0200
@@ -33,11 +33,12 @@
 
 doc_DATA		= $(OTHER_DOCS)
 
+if BUILD_DOC
 man_MANS		= heartbeat.8 apphbd.8 cl_status.1  \
 			 hb_standby.1 hb_takeover.1 hb_addnode.1 hb_delnode.1 \
 			 ha.cf.5 authkeys.5
 
-STYLESHEET_PREFIX 	?= http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current
+STYLESHEET_PREFIX 	?= /usr/share/sgml/docbook/xsl-stylesheets
 MANPAGES_STYLESHEET 	?= $(STYLESHEET_PREFIX)/manpages/docbook.xsl
 HTML_STYLESHEET 	?= $(STYLESHEET_PREFIX)/xhtml/docbook.xsl
 FO_STYLESHEET 		?= $(STYLESHEET_PREFIX)/fo/docbook.xsl
@@ -47,6 +48,12 @@
 XSLTPROC_HTML_OPTIONS 	?= $(XSLTPROC_OPTIONS)
 XSLTPROC_FO_OPTIONS 	?= $(XSLTPROC_OPTIONS)
 
+%.5 %.8 %.1: %.xml
+	$(XSLTPROC) \
+	$(XSLTPROC_MANPAGES_OPTIONS) \
+	$(MANPAGES_STYLESHEET) $<
+endif
+
 EXTRA_DIST = $(txtfiles) $(htmlfiles) $(man_MANS) $(OTHER_DOCS)
 
 ChangeLog: $(SPECSRC)
@@ -55,8 +62,3 @@
 
 .html.txt:
 	if [ "X$(HTML2TXT)" = "X" ]; then echo "Lynx or w3m or user-defined HTML2TXT required to convert $< to $@" >$@ ; else $(HTML2TXT) -dump $< >$@ ; fi
-
-%.5 %.8 %.1: %.xml
-	$(XSLTPROC) \
-	$(XSLTPROC_MANPAGES_OPTIONS) \
-	$(MANPAGES_STYLESHEET) $<