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 ## More Information
 
 You can find complete documentation on the [github-pages site](http://kbknapp.github.io/clap-rs/docs/clap/index.html) for this project.
+
+## How to build
+
+### Running the tests
+
+```
+cargo test
+```
+
+### Building the documentation
+
+Run this instead of `cargo doc` to generate the proper module docstring:
+
+```
+make doc
+```