diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index aeee89b..420b4ec 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@ New in version 1.20
 * Fix for Linux on SH-5 (floating point denorm handling).
 * Add detection of Linux 2.5
 * Allow arbitrary value of HZ in Linux kernel
+* Fix for chrony.spec on SuSE (Paul Elliot)
 
 New in version 1.19
 ===================
diff --git a/chrony.spec.sample b/chrony.spec.sample
index 361617a..1ea6969 100644
--- a/chrony.spec.sample
+++ b/chrony.spec.sample
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ act as an RFC1305-compatible NTP server.
 %setup
 
 %build
-./configure --prefix=%{_prefix}
+./configure --prefix=%{_prefix} --mandir=%{_mandir}
 make CC=gcc CFLAGS=-O2 prefix=%{_prefix}
 make chrony.txt prefix=%{_prefix}
 make chrony.info prefix=%{_prefix}