diff --git a/prebuild-pandoc.sh b/prebuild-pandoc.sh
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..98e6b23
--- /dev/null
+++ b/prebuild-pandoc.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+TARBALL=$(rpmspec --parse rdma-core.spec | grep Source: |  awk '{ print $NF}')
+OUTDIR=$(tar tf rdma-core-18.1.0.1f4780139d62.tar.gz  | head -n 1)
+
+rm -Rf $OUTDIR
+tar xf $TARBALL
+cd $OUTDIR
+mkdir build
+cd build
+cmake ..
+make docs
+tar czf ../../prebuilt-pandoc.tgz pandoc-prebuilt
diff --git a/prebuilt-pandoc.tgz b/prebuilt-pandoc.tgz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1a2a8e7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/prebuilt-pandoc.tgz
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1
+oid sha256:bb73f2fca391590206191cd3e22c42b0cb55843c5a11f3c7f20b165e4b90c44b
+size 11399
diff --git a/rdma-core.changes b/rdma-core.changes
index 5370e24..85e46c5 100644
--- a/rdma-core.changes
+++ b/rdma-core.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jun 14 08:54:13 UTC 2018 - nmoreychaisemartin@suse.com
+
+- Remove pandoc BuildRequires
+  * Add prebuilt-pandoc.sh to pre-generate the man pages
+  * Add prebuilt-pandoc.tgz containing pre-generated man pages
+  * Extract man pages in the appropriate directory during build
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jun 12 10:40:32 UTC 2018 - nmoreychaisemartin@suse.com
 
diff --git a/rdma-core.spec b/rdma-core.spec
index 7e00a94..85ef748 100644
--- a/rdma-core.spec
+++ b/rdma-core.spec
@@ -48,10 +48,10 @@ Group:          Productivity/Networking/Other
 Url:            https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core
 Source:         rdma-core-%{version}%{git_ver}.tar.gz
 Source1:        baselibs.conf
+Source2:        prebuilt-pandoc.tgz
 BuildRequires:  binutils
 BuildRequires:  cmake >= 2.8.11
 BuildRequires:  gcc
-BuildRequires:  pandoc
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRequires:  python3-base
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(libsystemd)
@@ -314,6 +314,8 @@ on those changes.
 
 %prep
 %setup -q -n  %{name}-%{version}%{git_ver}
+#Extract prebuilt pandoc file in the buildlib directory
+(cd buildlib && tar xf %{S:2})
 
 %build