diff --git a/contrib/osx/make_osx b/contrib/osx/make_osx
index 3d7e02ca3..94ea087e5 100755
--- a/contrib/osx/make_osx
+++ b/contrib/osx/make_osx
@@ -136,6 +136,7 @@ PYINSTALLER_COMMIT="40c9abce2d8de879e414fd377c933dccaab1e156"
     popd
     # sanity check bootloader is there:
     [[ -e "PyInstaller/bootloader/Darwin-64bit/runw" ]] || fail "Could not find runw in target dir!"
+    rm pyinstaller.py  # workaround for https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller/pull/6701
 ) || fail "PyInstaller build failed"
 info "Installing PyInstaller."
 python3 -m pip install --no-build-isolation --no-dependencies --no-warn-script-location "$CACHEDIR/pyinstaller"