diff -ur rpm-4.0.2/build/files.c rpm-4.0.2-/build/files.c
--- rpm-4.0.2/build/files.c	Fri May 17 14:28:01 2002
+++ rpm-4.0.2-/build/files.c	Fri May 17 14:26:29 2002
@@ -813,6 +813,16 @@
 	    appendStringBuf(pkg->specialDoc, "cp -pr ");
 	    appendStringBuf(pkg->specialDoc, specialDocBuf);
 	    appendLineStringBuf(pkg->specialDoc, " $DOCDIR");
+
+	    {
+	        char *compress_doc;
+
+		compress_doc = rpmExpand("%{__compress_doc}", NULL);
+		if (compress_doc && *compress_doc != '%')
+	    	    appendLineStringBuf(pkg->specialDoc, compress_doc);
+		if (compress_doc)
+		  free(compress_doc);
+	    }
 	}
     }
 
diff -ur rpm-4.0.2/platform.in rpm-4.0.2-/platform.in
--- rpm-4.0.2/platform.in	Wed Jan 17 17:14:16 2001
+++ rpm-4.0.2-/platform.in	Fri May 17 14:27:34 2002
@@ -51,6 +51,10 @@
      %{__os_install_post}\
 %{nil}
 
+# Executed at after copying %doc to DOCDIR, with $DOCDIR set
+%__compress_doc		@prefix@/lib/rpm/compress-doc
+
+
 #------------------------------------------------------------------------
 #	Expanded at end of %prep
 #