My mistake... hmmm this is a regression, but there are simple ways to workaround this problem. I'll try find you an easy way, or fix rpm2html, or both.
Interesting - I realized that the existing spec file for rpm2html included a call to an "autogen.sh" script in %pre, which in turn called configure, as well as a separate configure call in %build. After I removed the second configure call (moving its arguments to the autogen. sh script, which passes them back to configure), rpm2html stopped crashing!
See http://rpm.nogin.org/regularly_built/rh80/rpm2html-1.8.2-3.rh8.0.i386.html for source and binary RPMs.
P.S. I would suggest adding a working rpm2html to the "stable" channel of Fedora Legacy 8.0
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