[master] e2b456919 Look for rst2html same way we look for rst2man and make it non-optional

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <CABoVN9CXJDMgsUPzx6y9O=jmuXgUXL4Unpvyk1iH0AjV84vWaw at mail.gmail.com>
, Dridi Boukelmoune writes:

>>     Look for rst2html same way we look for rst2man and make it non-optional
>
>The whole point of `make dist` is that downstream users of a dist
>archive don't need autoconf, automake, libtool or any of the things
>that we build at dist-time.
>
>Making rst2* and sphinx-build truly optional would solve the polishing
>needed on the packaging side: we wouldn't even need them as build
>dependencies anymore.
>
>Can I revert this and send a patch to fix our documentation build instead?

As long as your fix also finds Py3 rst2html: yes.


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