
In light of Emacs packaging improvements such as those mentioned in #11503, and with the addition of a systemd service (#15807 and #16356), and considering that the wiki page is completely out of date (#13217), it seems that some documentation is in order.
To build the manual, you need Nix installed on your system (no need for NixOS). To install Nix, follow the instructions at https://nixos.org/nix/download.html When you have Nix on your system, in the root directory of the project (i.e., `nixpkgs`), run: nix-build nixos/release.nix -A manual.x86_64-linux When this command successfully finishes, it will tell you where the manual got generated.