This is essentially the upstream commit 7aea04f7099ad4dde7b1f5900b54ef603eadf25e,
modified so that MAN_DATE is set to simply '-' - the commit generates
the date using the script util/getrevision.sh, which is not included in
release tarballs.

--- a/flashrom.8.tmpl
+++ b/flashrom.8.tmpl
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@
 .    \}
 .  \}
 ..
-.TH FLASHROM 8 "" ""
+.TH FLASHROM 8 "@MAN_DATE@" "@VERSION@" "@MAN_DATE@"
 .SH NAME
 flashrom \- detect, read, write, verify and erase flash chips
 .SH SYNOPSIS
--- a/meson.build
+++ b/meson.build
@@ -321,6 +321,7 @@ endif
 prefix = get_option('prefix')
 sbindir = join_paths(prefix, get_option('sbindir'))
 libdir = join_paths(prefix, get_option('libdir'))
+mandir = join_paths(prefix, get_option('mandir'))
 
 install_headers([
     'libflashrom.h',
@@ -394,6 +395,16 @@ pkgg.generate(
   description : 'library to interact with flashrom',
 )
 
+conf.set('VERSION', version)
+conf.set('MAN_DATE', '-')
+configure_file(
+  input : 'flashrom.8.tmpl',
+  output : 'flashrom.8',
+  configuration : conf,
+  install: true,
+  install_dir: join_paths(mandir, 'man8'),
+)
+
 flashrom_dep = declare_dependency(
   link_with : flashrom,
   include_directories : include_directories('.'),