diff --git a/docs/libpsl/Makefile.am b/docs/libpsl/Makefile.am
index 97279b5..9812d70 100644
--- a/docs/libpsl/Makefile.am
+++ b/docs/libpsl/Makefile.am
@@ -113,9 +113,11 @@ if ENABLE_MAN
 theMANS += libpsl.3
 man_MANS += docs $(theMANS)
 
-%.3:
-#.xml.3:
-	@file=xml/`echo $@|cut -d'.' -f1`.xml; \
+# make distcheck -jn randomly breaks
+.NOTPARALLEL:
+
+%.3: sgml-build.stamp
+	@file=xml/`basename $@|cut -d'.' -f1`.xml; \
 	@XSLTPROC@ -nonet http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl $$file
 
 endif
diff --git a/docs/libpsl/libpsl.types b/docs/libpsl/libpsl.types
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e69de29