Description of problem:

The source package device-mapper-1.00.14-3.src.rpm will not build as a
non-root user.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

1.00.14-3

How reproducible:

'rpmbuild --rebuild device-mapper-1.00.14-3.src.rpm' as non-root user

Actual results:

Building fails, the last few lines of message are

make -C man install
make[1]: Entering directory
`/home/ed/usr_src/RPM/BUILD/device-mapper.1.00.14/man'
*** Installing  in
/var/tmp/device-mapper-1.00.14-3-buildroot/usr/share/man/man8 ***
/home/ed/bin/install: cannot change owner and/or group of
`/var/tmp/device-mapper-1.00.14-3-buildroot': Operation not permitted
make[1]: *** [install] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory
`/home/ed/usr_src/RPM/BUILD/device-mapper.1.00.14/man'
make: *** [man.install] Error 2
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.4056 (%install)

Expected results:

It should be possible to build the package as an ordinary user.

Additional info:

This is because of lines in the various makefiles like

@INSTALL@ -D -o $(OWNER) -g $(GROUP) -m 444 $$f $(MAN8DIR)/$$f; \

Because $(OWNER) and $(GROUP) are set to 'root' by configure, the
makefiles try to chown files to root, which isn't permitted.  I think
you may be able to fix this using the --with-user or --without-user
options to configure.