Summary says it all. The cause of the problem is that in version 1.6 manfiles.c has a ``#include "gripes.h" ''. I guess that this means that the following minor patch needs to be applied (tested and working): diff -ru man-1.6.old/src/Makefile.in man-1.6/src/Makefile.in --- man-1.6.old/src/Makefile.in 2005-06-21 10:29:59.000000000 +0900 +++ man-1.6/src/Makefile.in 2005-07-01 12:39:03.000000000 +0900 @@ -52,7 +52,7 @@ man-config.o man-getopt.o man.o manpath.o to_cat.o: defs.h different.o man.o: different.h man.o manfile.o: glob.h -different.o gripes.o man-config.o man-getopt.o man.o manpath.o util.o: gripes.h gripedefs.h +different.o gripes.o man-config.o man-getopt.o man.o manpath.o util.o manfile.o: gripes.h gripedefs.h different.o man-config.o man-getopt.o man.o manpath.o: man-config.h gripes.o man-config.o man-getopt.o man.o manpath.o util.o: man.h man-getopt.o man.o manpath.o: man-getopt.h It looks ugly but you probably get the idea.
Uh, the patch is correct, but the comment was supposed to say "manfile.c" instead of "manfiles.c".
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97439 ***
