diff --git a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix
index 181983e48b0d..2991169a7025 100644
--- a/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/applications/window-managers/awesome/default.nix
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 , xcb-util-cursor, makeWrapper, pango, gobjectIntrospection, unclutter
 , compton, procps, iproute, coreutils, curl, alsaUtils, findutils, xterm
 , which, dbus, nettools, git, asciidoc, doxygen
-#, xmlto, docbook_xml_dtd_45 , docbook_xsl
+, xmlto, docbook_xml_dtd_45, docbook_xsl, findXMLCatalogs
 }:
 
 let
@@ -26,25 +26,29 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     platforms   = platforms.linux;
   };
 
-  buildInputs = [
+  nativeBuildInputs = [
     asciidoc
-    cairo
     cmake
-    dbus
     doxygen
+    imagemagick
+    makeWrapper
+    pkgconfig
+    xmlto docbook_xml_dtd_45 docbook_xsl findXMLCatalogs
+  ];
+
+  buildInputs = [
+    cairo
+    dbus
     gdk_pixbuf
     gobjectIntrospection
     git
-    imagemagick
     lgi
     libpthreadstubs
     libstartup_notification
     libxdg_basedir
     lua
-    makeWrapper
     nettools
     pango
-    pkgconfig
     xcb-util-cursor
     xorg.libXau
     xorg.libXdmcp
@@ -55,7 +59,6 @@ stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
     xorg.xcbutilkeysyms
     xorg.xcbutilrenderutil
     xorg.xcbutilwm
-    #xmlto docbook_xml_dtd_45 docbook_xsl
   ];
 
   #cmakeFlags = "-DGENERATE_MANPAGES=ON";