diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 90d70c98..792c1e1c 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Sat Nov 15 09:53:36 MST 2003 John Fleck <jfleck@inkstain.net>
+
+	* doc/docdescr.doc
+	  added description of man page building
+
 Sat Nov 15 19:08:22 HKT 2003 William Brack <wbrack@mmm.com.hk>
 
 	* doc/html/libxml-chvalid.html, doc/html/libxml-dict.html,
diff --git a/doc/docdescr.doc b/doc/docdescr.doc
index c80e4f8a..46ea0146 100644
--- a/doc/docdescr.doc
+++ b/doc/docdescr.doc
@@ -38,8 +38,10 @@ site.xsl           xslt script imported by api.xsl, generates most top-level
                      pages from news.html
 xsa.xsl            xslt script to generate libxml.xsa from news.html
 
-xmlcatalog.1       Man page for xml catalogs
-xmllint.1          Man page for xmllint program
+xmlcatalog.1       Man page for xml catalogs, built from xmlcatalog_man.xml DocBook
+		   source with "make xmlcatalog.1" or "make all"
+xmllint.1          Man page for xmllint program, built from xmllint.xml DocBook
+		   source with "make xmllint.1" or "make all"
 
 libxml-doc.el      Control script for displaying docs under emacs