diff --git a/lib/module-walker.js b/lib/module-walker.js
index b36e35c968c85b625f2080466f6518b1d355e4ef..427e81b7ada4f01e8712c4c6c8353fe0ff4f7cab 100644
--- a/lib/module-walker.js
+++ b/lib/module-walker.js
@@ -89,11 +89,22 @@ class ModuleWalker {
             // Ignore the magical .bin directory
             if (modulePath === '.bin')
                 continue;
+            const subPath = path_1.default.resolve(nodeModulesPath, modulePath);
             // Ensure that we don't mark modules as needing to be rebuilt more than once
             // by ignoring / resolving symlinks
-            const realPath = await fs_extra_1.default.realpath(path_1.default.resolve(nodeModulesPath, modulePath));
-            if (this.realModulePaths.has(realPath)) {
-                continue;
+            let realPath;
+            try {
+                realPath = await fs_extra_1.default.realpath(subPath);
+            }
+            catch (error) {
+                // pnpm leaves dangling symlinks when modules are removed
+                if (error.code === 'ENOENT') {
+                    const stat = await fs_extra_1.default.lstat(subPath);
+                    if (stat.isSymbolicLink()) {
+                        continue;
+                    }
+                }
+                throw error;
             }
             this.realModulePaths.add(realPath);
             if (this.prodDeps[`${prefix}${modulePath}`] && (!this.onlyModules || this.onlyModules.includes(modulePath))) {