diff --git a/www-client/elinks/elinks-0.16.1.1-r3.ebuild b/www-client/elinks/elinks-0.16.1.1-r3.ebuild
index edfcfdf198e70..f879db1c426eb 100644
--- a/www-client/elinks/elinks-0.16.1.1-r3.ebuild
+++ b/www-client/elinks/elinks-0.16.1.1-r3.ebuild
@@ -97,6 +97,7 @@ src_configure() {
 		-Ddocdir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}
 		-Dhtmldoc=false
 		-Dpdfdoc=false
+		-Dapidoc=false
 		-D88-colors=true
 		-D256-colors=true
 		$(meson_use bittorrent)
diff --git a/www-client/elinks/elinks-9999.ebuild b/www-client/elinks/elinks-9999.ebuild
index 5d89b59b78460..414f0f24a9ec1 100644
--- a/www-client/elinks/elinks-9999.ebuild
+++ b/www-client/elinks/elinks-9999.ebuild
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ src_configure() {
 		-Ddocdir="${EPREFIX}"/usr/share/doc/${PF}
 		-Dhtmldoc=false
 		-Dpdfdoc=false
+		-Dapidoc=false
 		-D88-colors=true
 		-D256-colors=true
 		$(meson_use bittorrent)