lfs-book/chapter06/man-inst.xml

<sect2>
<title>Installation of Man</title>

<para>
Before Man is installed, the man patch file needs to be unpacked.
</para>

<blockquote><literallayout>
	<userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../man-&man-version;.patch
		&amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>./configure -default &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>make &amp;&amp;</userinput>
	<userinput>make install</userinput>
</literallayout></blockquote>

<para>
You may want to take a look at the <ulink
url="http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-hints/man.txt">man hint</ulink>
which deals with formatting and compression issues for man pages.
</para>

</sect2>