make distcheck on macOS ignores --disable-asciidoc in its second configure invocation

I build tor on macos using:

git clone https://git.torproject.org/tor.git
cd tor
mkdir build-c
../configure --disable-asciidoc --with-libevent-dir=/usr/local --with-openssl-dir=/usr/local/opt/openssl --enable-lzma --enable-zstd --enable-libscrypt CC=clang --enable-gcc-warnings --enable-expensive-hardening
make distcheck

Which fails with:

checking whether the compiler accepts @warning_flags... yes
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Building Tor has failed since manpages cannot be built.

You need asciidoc installed to be able to build the manpages.
To build without manpages, use the --disable-asciidoc argument
when calling configure.

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make: *** [distcheck] Error 1
Exit 2

What am I doing wrong? Does "make distcheck" support a build directory inside tor/ ?