diff --git a/desktop/faience-icon-theme/faience-icon-theme.SlackBuild b/desktop/faience-icon-theme/faience-icon-theme.SlackBuild
index 54e1fe129d..15d755321d 100644
--- a/desktop/faience-icon-theme/faience-icon-theme.SlackBuild
+++ b/desktop/faience-icon-theme/faience-icon-theme.SlackBuild
@@ -67,4 +67,11 @@ cat $CWD/slack-desc > $PKG/install/slack-desc
 cat $CWD/doinst.sh > $PKG/install/doinst.sh
 
 cd $PKG
+# 20200407 bkw: makepkg's symlink search and doinst.sh creation doesn't
+# scale well. This makes the build complete much faster, and create an
+# identical doinst.sh.
+find . -type l \
+  -printf '( cd %h ; rm -rf %f )\n( cd %h ; ln -sf %l %f )\n' -delete | \
+  sed 's,cd \./,cd ,' >> $PKG/install/doinst.sh
+
 /sbin/makepkg -l y -c n $OUTPUT/$PRGNAM-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz}