After meson conversion the man pages started to contain the table of contents. In autoconf we prevented this by a 'grep -v ::contents' in the command building the manpages. A more cultured solution is to strip out the 'contents' docutils element directly. Reported-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berrange(a)redhat.com&gt; Signed-off-by: Peter Krempa <pkrempa(a)redhat.com&gt; --- docs/manpages/meson.build | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/manpages/meson.build b/docs/manpages/meson.build index 3888bb8efe..7ed1d304a4 100644 --- a/docs/manpages/meson.build +++ b/docs/manpages/meson.build @@ -89,7 +89,8 @@ foreach data : docs_man_files man_file, input: rst_file, output: man_file, - command: [ rst2man_prog, '--strict', '@INPUT@', '@OUTPUT@' ], + # 'contents' element is the table of contents which is undesired in manpage + command: [ rst2man_prog, '--strip-elements-with-class', 'contents', '--strict', '@INPUT@', '@OUTPUT@' ], install: true, install_dir: mandir / &#39;man@0(a)&#39;.format(data[&#39;section&#39;]), ) -- 2.26.2