diff --git a/.gitlab-ci.yml b/.gitlab-ci.yml
index 3d622b7ba8b5790d8931a7972f9e6d7f2cb8389b..58c1ed2e09100f73e1b5f56aca62cf8bc28eb7e0 100644
--- a/.gitlab-ci.yml
+++ b/.gitlab-ci.yml
@@ -257,6 +257,10 @@ Pylint:
   script:
   - EXTRA_INSTALL="pybind11 numpy mako"
   - py_version=3.6
+  - # After installation, PyOpenCL cannot be used from the source directory due
+  - # to package shadowing. To work around this, build in editable mode so there
+  - # is only one copy of everything.
+  - PROJECT_INSTALL_FLAGS="--editable"
   - curl -L -O -k https://gitlab.tiker.net/inducer/ci-support/raw/master/prepare-and-run-pylint.sh
   - ". ./prepare-and-run-pylint.sh pyopencl test/test_*.py"
   tags: