diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix
index 269875656369..713ca591578d 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix
@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 , xlibs, libstartup_notification, libxdg_basedir, libpthreadstubs
 , xcb-util-cursor, lgi, makeWrapper, pango, gobjectIntrospection, unclutter
 , compton, procps, iproute, coreutils, curl, alsaUtils, findutils, rxvt_unicode
-, which, dbus, nettools, git, asciidoc, doxygen }:
+, which, dbus, nettools, git, asciidoc, doxygen, xmlto, docbook_xml_dtd_45
+, docbook_xsl }:
 
 let
   version = "3.5.5";
@@ -52,8 +53,11 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     xlibs.xcbutilkeysyms
     xlibs.xcbutilrenderutil
     xlibs.xcbutilwm
+    xmlto docbook_xml_dtd_45 docbook_xsl
   ];
 
+  cmakeFlags = "-DGENERATE_MANPAGES=ON";
+
   LD_LIBRARY_PATH = "${cairo}/lib:${pango}/lib:${gobjectIntrospection}/lib";
   GI_TYPELIB_PATH = "${pango}/lib/girepository-1.0";
   LUA_CPATH = "${lgi}/lib/lua/5.1/?.so";