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Description of problem:
man is missing many build dependencies. During the build process, the
configure script looks for certain utilities and stores their paths
for the man program. Without these utilities install, some
functionality will be missing. The follow patch fixes it:

--- working/man/man.spec        2004-03-31 15:02:45.000000000 -0500
+++ /opt/specs/man.spec 2004-06-10 13:50:28.000000000 -0400
@@ -24,8 +24,10 @@
 Patch12: man-1.5m2-posix.patch
                                                                     
          
 Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root
-PreReq: fileutils
+PreReq: coreutils
 Requires: less, groff >= 1.18, nroff-i18n, findutils, mktemp >=
1.5-2.1.5x
+Requires: bzip2, gzip, diffutils
+BuildRequires: less, groff, diffutils, bzip2, gzip, coreutils
                                                                     
          
 %description
 The man package includes three tools for finding information and/or


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
man-1.5m2-6

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. rpm -e --nodeps less groff diffutils bzip2 gzip
2. rpmbuild -bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/man.spec

Additional info: