diff --git a/curl.spec b/curl.spec
index 19d9884..94caa4d 100644
--- a/curl.spec
+++ b/curl.spec
@@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ export LD_LIBRARY_PATH
 cd build-full/tests
 make %{?_smp_mflags} V=1
 
+# TODO: fix tests/manpage-scan.pl upstream to support out of source tree builds
+ln -s ../../docs/curl.1 ../docs
+
 # run the upstream test-suite
 srcdir=../../tests perl -I../../tests ../../tests/runtests.pl -a -p -v '!flaky'