Before you build the JDS packages (Vermillion Development builds), you have to create the manpage tarballs. This is rather easy:
$ cd spec-files/Solaris/manpages $ make Done. For internal builds we used to deliver manpage tarballs to a central area accessible by each build system. Unfortunately the central area was not being updated when manpages changed. Now each build begins with the rebuilding of the manpage tarballs. This message posted from opensolaris.org
