diff --git a/docs/reference/glib/Makefile.am b/docs/reference/glib/Makefile.am
index 154936b89..beac383b7 100644
--- a/docs/reference/glib/Makefile.am
+++ b/docs/reference/glib/Makefile.am
@@ -64,6 +64,7 @@ content_files =				\
 	running.sgml			\
 	building.sgml			\
 	changes.sgml			\
+	compiling.sgml			\
 	resources.sgml			\
 	regex-syntax.sgml		\
 	version.xml			\
@@ -73,9 +74,6 @@ content_files =				\
 	gvariant-varargs.xml		\
 	gvariant-text.xml
 
-expand_content_files = 			\
-	compiling.sgml
-
 # Extra options to supply to gtkdoc-fixref
 FIXXREF_OPTIONS=--extra-dir=$(srcdir)/../gobject/html --extra-dir=$(srcdir)/../gio/html