Distribute built documentation
This patch changes the way documentation is built in order to distribute the generated output in the 'dist' archive, and thus no longer requiring the presence of the docbook/rst toolchains during build time. This will lower the requirements for installation and also makes the build time insignificant. First, we remove the docbook2pdf rules and variables, since we no longer build this kind of docs. Furthermore, the rst source files are not (today) processed via replace_vars_sed, so the whole .in rules for doc/ go away. Next, we change the ".sgml|.rst -> replace_vars_sed -> .in -> processor -> final file" processing to ".sgml|.rst -> generator -> .in -> replace_vars_sed -> final file"; this means we first process the file using the formatter, with the @VARIABLE@ entries in it, and save the output as .in; this output we distribute, and on the user side, the replace_vars_sed will use the new configure flags to transform the (almost final .in form) to the final form, without needing the toolchain. In configure.ac we also change from ERROR to WARN for the documentation generators, and extra tests in Makefile.am check that the programs have been found. This was tested with distcheck and works as expected. Reviewed-by: ultrotter
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