diff --git a/doc/ja/meson.build b/doc/ja/meson.build
index c7a644120..ec6d8b559 100644
--- a/doc/ja/meson.build
+++ b/doc/ja/meson.build
@@ -57,13 +57,6 @@ if want_mans
         input: 'see_also.sgml.in',
         output: 'see_also.sgml')
 
-    # Config
-    docconf = configuration_data()
-    docconf.set('docdtd', '"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"')
-    docconf.set('builddir', '.')
-    docconf.set('LXC_GENERATE_DATE', generate_date)
-    docconf.set_quoted('PACKAGE_VERSION', meson.project_version())
-
     # Initial templating.
     foreach page : PAGES
         sgml = configure_file(
@@ -74,7 +67,7 @@ if want_mans
         configure_file(
             input: sgml,
             output: page[0] + '.' + page[1],
-            command: ['docbook2x-man', '--encoding=UTF-8', page[0] + '.sgml'],
+            command: [sgml2man, '--encoding=UTF-8', page[0] + '.sgml'],
             install: true,
             install_dir: join_paths(mandir, 'ja', 'man' + page[1]))
     endforeach
diff --git a/doc/ko/meson.build b/doc/ko/meson.build
index bd01f6088..97390f570 100644
--- a/doc/ko/meson.build
+++ b/doc/ko/meson.build
@@ -50,13 +50,6 @@ if want_mans
         input: 'see_also.sgml.in',
         output: 'see_also.sgml')
 
-    # Config
-    docconf = configuration_data()
-    docconf.set('docdtd', '"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"')
-    docconf.set('builddir', '.')
-    docconf.set('LXC_GENERATE_DATE', generate_date)
-    docconf.set_quoted('PACKAGE_VERSION', meson.project_version())
-
     # Initial templating.
     foreach page : PAGES
         sgml = configure_file(
@@ -67,7 +60,7 @@ if want_mans
         configure_file(
             input: sgml,
             output: page[0] + '.' + page[1],
-            command: ['docbook2x-man', '--encoding=UTF-8', page[0] + '.sgml'],
+            command: [sgml2man, '--encoding=UTF-8', page[0] + '.sgml'],
             install: true,
             install_dir: join_paths(mandir, 'ko', 'man' + page[1]))
     endforeach
diff --git a/doc/meson.build b/doc/meson.build
index af773975c..7f87bac23 100644
--- a/doc/meson.build
+++ b/doc/meson.build
@@ -57,13 +57,6 @@ if want_mans
         input: 'see_also.sgml.in',
         output: 'see_also.sgml')
 
-    # Config
-    docconf = configuration_data()
-    docconf.set('docdtd', '"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"')
-    docconf.set('builddir', '.')
-    docconf.set('LXC_GENERATE_DATE', generate_date)
-    docconf.set_quoted('PACKAGE_VERSION', meson.project_version())
-
     # Initial templating.
     foreach page : PAGES
         sgml = configure_file(
@@ -74,7 +67,7 @@ if want_mans
         configure_file(
             input: sgml,
             output: page[0] + '.' + page[1],
-            command: ['docbook2x-man', '--encoding=UTF-8', page[0] + '.sgml'],
+            command: [sgml2man, '--encoding=UTF-8', page[0] + '.sgml'],
             install: true,
             install_dir: join_paths(mandir, 'man' + page[1]))
     endforeach
diff --git a/meson.build b/meson.build
index fd549b30f..53fb21e67 100644
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -212,6 +212,20 @@ generate_date = run_command(date, '--utc', '--date=@' + time_epoch, '+%Y-%m-%d',
 time_epoch = time_epoch.to_int()
 conf.set('TIME_EPOCH', time_epoch)
 
+## Manpages.
+sgml2man = find_program('docbook2X2man', 'docbook2x-man', 'db2x_docbook2man', 'docbook2man', 'docbook-to-man', required: false)
+docbook2man = find_program('docbook2man', required: false)
+
+docconf = configuration_data()
+docconf.set('builddir', '.')
+docconf.set('LXC_GENERATE_DATE', generate_date)
+docconf.set('PACKAGE_VERSION', version_data.get('LXC_VERSION'))
+if sgml2man.found() and docbook2man.found() and sgml2man.full_path() == docbook2man.full_path()
+    docconf.set('docdtd', '"-//Davenport//DTD DocBook V3.0//EN"')
+else
+    docconf.set('docdtd', '"-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd"')
+endif
+
 ## Threads.
 threads = dependency('threads')