diff --git a/core/systemd/PKGBUILD b/core/systemd/PKGBUILD
index 66f308c8b..70bb137aa 100644
--- a/core/systemd/PKGBUILD
+++ b/core/systemd/PKGBUILD
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@
 #  - removed makedepend on gnu-efi-libs, set -Dgnuefi=false for !aarch64
 #  - add 242-1 changes in systemd.install to fix systemd-timesyncd
 #  - change SBAT information for ALARM
+#  - !distcc - systemd is finding distcc's clang symlink without clang
 
 pkgbase=systemd
 pkgname=('systemd' 'systemd-libs' 'systemd-resolvconf' 'systemd-sysvcompat')
@@ -23,7 +24,7 @@ makedepends=('acl' 'cryptsetup' 'docbook-xsl' 'gperf' 'lz4' 'xz' 'pam' 'libelf'
              'meson' 'libseccomp' 'pcre2' 'audit' 'kexec-tools' 'libxkbcommon'
              'bash-completion' 'p11-kit' 'systemd' 'libfido2' 'tpm2-tss' 'rsync')
 makedepends_aarch64=('gnu-efi-libs')
-options=('strip')
+options=('strip' '!distcc')
 validpgpkeys=('63CDA1E5D3FC22B998D20DD6327F26951A015CC4'  # Lennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>
               'A9EA9081724FFAE0484C35A1A81CEA22BC8C7E2E'  # Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com>
               '5C251B5FC54EB2F80F407AAAC54CA336CFEB557E') # Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek <zbyszek@in.waw.pl>