diff --git a/man.changes b/man.changes
index 159fa4d..2dc0019 100644
--- a/man.changes
+++ b/man.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Aug 18 09:44:06 UTC 2022 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
+
+- Workaround missing groff-full to get refer(1), the bibliographic
+  preprocessor found
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Aug 18 08:14:54 UTC 2022 - Dr. Werner Fink <werner@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/man.spec b/man.spec
index 0cc4b0d..5562c0c 100644
--- a/man.spec
+++ b/man.spec
@@ -69,6 +69,7 @@ BuildRequires:  less
 BuildRequires:  libalternatives-devel
 BuildRequires:  libpipeline-devel >= 1.5.0
 BuildRequires:  libzio-devel
+BuildRequires:  lzip
 BuildRequires:  man-pages
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig
 BuildRequires:  po4a
@@ -143,6 +144,14 @@ done
 LIBS="-lalternatives"
 export LINGUAS LIBS
 
+# Hack as otherwise
+# BuildRequires:  groff-full
+# is required
+mkdir bin
+ln -sf /bin/true bin/refer
+PATH=$PATH:${PWD}/bin
+export PATH
+
 # Create configure
 aclocal  -I ${PWD} -I ${PWD}/m4 -I ${PWD}/gl/m4
 autoconf -B ${PWD} -B ${PWD}/m4 -B ${PWD}/gl/m4