diff --git a/gnu/packages/pcre.scm b/gnu/packages/pcre.scm
index 5d6618a9ece..d2933bbe387 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/pcre.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/pcre.scm
@@ -42,6 +42,8 @@
              (base32
               "1pvra19ljkr5ky35y2iywjnsckrs9ch2anrf5b0dc91hw8v2vq5r"))))
    (build-system gnu-build-system)
+   (outputs '("out"
+              "doc"))                             ;1.8 MiB of HTML
    (inputs `(("bzip2" ,bzip2)
              ("readline" ,readline)
              ("zlib" ,zlib)))