No configure options to disable looking for these, redundant for releases because the tarballs already contain both PDF documentation and man pages, and as of 2021-05-11 doc generation is not compatible with sphinx-4.0.0+ due to conf.py calling long-deprecated app.add_stylesheet() rather than app.add_css_file(). --- a/configure.ac +++ b/configure.ac @@ -2423,7 +2423,7 @@ fi # sphinx for documentation - AC_PATH_PROG(HAVE_SPHINXBUILD, sphinx-build, "no") + HAVE_SPHINXBUILD="no" if test "$HAVE_SPHINXBUILD" = "no"; then enable_sphinxbuild=no if test -e "$srcdir/doc/userguide/suricata.1"; then @@ -2434,7 +2434,7 @@ AM_CONDITIONAL([HAVE_SURICATA_MAN], [test "x$have_suricata_man" = "xyes"]) # pdflatex for the pdf version of the user manual - AC_PATH_PROG(HAVE_PDFLATEX, pdflatex, "no") + HAVE_PDFLATEX="no" if test "$HAVE_PDFLATEX" = "no"; then enable_pdflatex=no fi