diff --git a/contrib/jenkins.sh b/contrib/jenkins.sh
index 19df974..b512334 100755
--- a/contrib/jenkins.sh
+++ b/contrib/jenkins.sh
@@ -1,5 +1,11 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 # jenkins build helper script for openbsc.  This is how we build on jenkins.osmocom.org
+#
+# environment variables:
+# * GTP: configure GTP tunneling Linux kernel (values: "--enable-gtp-linux" or "--disable-gtp-linux")
+# * WITH_MANUALS: build manual PDFs if set to "1"
+# * PUBLISH: upload manuals after building if set to "1" (ignored without WITH_MANUALS = "1")
+#
 
 if ! [ -x "$(command -v osmo-build-dep.sh)" ]; then
 	echo "Error: We need to have scripts/osmo-deps.sh from http://git.osmocom.org/osmo-ci/ in PATH !"
@@ -27,6 +33,14 @@
 
 export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="$inst/lib/pkgconfig:$PKG_CONFIG_PATH"
 export LD_LIBRARY_PATH="$inst/lib"
+export PATH="$inst/bin:$PATH"
+
+# Additional configure options and depends
+CONFIG=""
+if [ "$WITH_MANUALS" = "1" ]; then
+	osmo-build-dep.sh osmo-gsm-manuals
+	CONFIG="--enable-manuals"
+fi
 
 set +x
 echo
@@ -38,8 +52,12 @@
 
 cd "$base"
 autoreconf --install --force
-./configure --enable-sanitize --enable-werror $GTP
+./configure --enable-sanitize --enable-werror $GTP $CONFIG
 $MAKE $PARALLEL_MAKE
-$MAKE distcheck
+DISTCHECK_CONFIGURE_FLAGS="$CONFIG" $MAKE distcheck
+
+if [ "$WITH_MANUALS" = "1" ] && [ "$PUBLISH" = "1" ]; then
+	make -C "$base/doc/manuals" publish
+fi
 
 osmo-clean-workspace.sh