This was broken due to misuse of setting. (--disable-man caused it to be enabled still.) This may be changed in trac1687 branch to have different default behavior.
@@ -907,7 +907,7 @@ AC_PATH_PROGS(AWK, gawk awk)
AC_SUBST(AWK)
AC_ARG_ENABLE(man, [AC_HELP_STRING([--enable-man],
- [regenerate man pages [default=no]])], enable_man=yes, enable_man=no)
+ [regenerate man pages [default=no]])], enable_man=$enableval, enable_man=no)
AM_CONDITIONAL(ENABLE_MAN, test x$enable_man != xno)