We don't need them in the repo, it's sufficient if we pregenerate them
while preparing the tarball. That way we don't have overhead while
modifying them but they are still available for installations without
Sphinx.
I assume that this will make rebases and cherry-picks across branches
easier, with less trial and error churn required in the CI.
It's implemented in the way that we build the manpages only when we
either have pregenerated pages available at the configure time or
sphinx-build is installed and working.
Make various adjustments necessary to enable "make dist" to build a BIND
source tarball whose contents are complete enough to build binaries, run
unit & system tests, and generate documentation on Unix systems.
Known outstanding issues:
- "make distcheck" does not work yet.
- Tests do not work for out-of-tree source-tarball-based builds.
- Source tarballs are not complete enough for building on Windows.
All of the above will be addressed in due course.
The ARM and the manpages have been converted into Sphinx documentation
format.
Sphinx uses reStructuredText as its markup language, and many of its
strengths come from the power and straightforwardness of
reStructuredText and its parsing and translating suite, the Docutils.