diff --git a/admin/build-doc b/admin/build-doc
index 63684cc2864..96a87d76fba 100755
--- a/admin/build-doc
+++ b/admin/build-doc
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ cd build-doc
 if [ ! -e $vdir ]; then
     virtualenv --python=python3 $vdir
 fi
-$vdir/bin/pip install --quiet -r $TOPDIR/admin/doc-requirements.txt
+$vdir/bin/pip install --quiet -r $TOPDIR/admin/doc-requirements.txt -r $TOPDIR/admin/doc-python-common-requirements.txt
 
 install -d -m0755 \
     $TOPDIR/build-doc/output/html \
diff --git a/admin/doc-python-common-requirements.txt b/admin/doc-python-common-requirements.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..8cd8ec78c99
--- /dev/null
+++ b/admin/doc-python-common-requirements.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+pcpp
+Jinja2
+-e../src/python-common
diff --git a/admin/doc-requirements.txt b/admin/doc-requirements.txt
index 29db8cfe61b..275b519ee68 100644
--- a/admin/doc-requirements.txt
+++ b/admin/doc-requirements.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,3 @@ Cython
 prettytable
 sphinx-autodoc-typehints == 1.10.3
 typed-ast
-pcpp
--e../src/python-common
-Jinja2