diff --git a/components/cli/scripts/docs/generate-man.sh b/components/cli/scripts/docs/generate-man.sh
index e955130559..28fea4e1ce 100755
--- a/components/cli/scripts/docs/generate-man.sh
+++ b/components/cli/scripts/docs/generate-man.sh
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ MD2MAN_COMMIT=$(grep -F "$MD2MAN_REPO" vendor.conf | cut -d' ' -f2)
 )
 
 # Generate man pages from cobra commands
-go build -o /tmp/gen-manpages ./man
+go build -o /tmp/gen-manpages github.com/docker/cli/man
 /tmp/gen-manpages --root . --target ./man/man1
 
 # Generate legacy pages from markdown