diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 4e7b8a41a..6b9c14a68 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -1025,6 +1025,8 @@ endif
 # also others, but so long as it doesn't fail this is enough to know we tried
 docs/source/cmd/abc.rst: $(TARGETS) $(EXTRA_TARGETS)
 	$(Q) mkdir -p docs/source/cmd
+	$(Q) mkdir -p temp/docs/source/cmd
+	$(Q) cd temp && ./../$(PROGRAM_PREFIX)yosys -p 'help -write-rst-command-reference-manual'
 	$(Q) rsync -rc temp/docs/source/cmd docs/source
 	$(Q) rm -rf temp
 docs/source/cell/word_add.rst: $(TARGETS) $(EXTRA_TARGETS)
@@ -1033,6 +1035,7 @@ docs/source/cell/word_add.rst: $(TARGETS) $(EXTRA_TARGETS)
 	$(Q) cd temp && ./../$(PROGRAM_PREFIX)yosys -p 'help -write-rst-cells-manual'
 	$(Q) rsync -rc temp/docs/source/cell docs/source
 	$(Q) rm -rf temp
+
 docs/source/generated/cells.json: docs/source/generated $(TARGETS) $(EXTRA_TARGETS)
 	$(Q) ./$(PROGRAM_PREFIX)yosys -p 'help -dump-cells-json $@'