How to disable gtk-doc when building from CVS source

[Travis Spencer <travislspencer gmail com>]

To build the latest version of gtk+, is gtk-doc mandatory?  I know
that it can be turned off by passing the `--disable-gtk-doc' flag to
the configure script, but getting to that point doesn't seem possible
without gtk-doc.  Sure I can comment out the test for it in
autogen.sh, but then I get other errors:

./autogen.sh --disable-gtk-doc --prefix=/stash/tspencer/builds/gtk+-current
Symlinking file po/Makefile.in.in

Please add the files
  codeset.m4 gettext.m4 glibc21.m4 iconv.m4 isc-posix.m4 lcmessage.m4
  progtest.m4
from the /pkgs/gnu/share/aclocal directory to your autoconf macro directory
or directly to your aclocal.m4 file.
You will also need config.guess and config.sub, which you can get from
ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/config/.

configure.in:47: your implementation of AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE comes from an
configure.in:47: old Automake version.  You should recreate aclocal.m4
configure.in:47: with aclocal and run automake again.
configure.in: installing `./install-sh'
configure.in: installing `./mkinstalldirs'
configure.in: installing `./missing'
Makefile.am: installing `./INSTALL'
atk/Makefile.am: installing `./depcomp'
/stash/travissu/opt/autoconf/automake-1.7/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am:
am__fastdepCC does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
/stash/travissu/opt/autoconf/automake-1.7/share/automake-1.7/am/depend2.am:
AMDEP does not appear in AM_CONDITIONAL
automake-1.7: cannot open < gtk-doc.make: No such file or directory
  at /stash/travissu/opt/autoconf/automake-1.7/bin/automake-1.7 line 7648

I think only the last line is relevant to gtk-doc.  It is such a drag
when documentation holds up a build.

This is on a Sparc Solaris 9 machine w/ gcc 3.4 in case it helps. 
Also, I am using autoconf 2.59, automake 1.8, and libtool 1.5.10.

TIA.

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Regards,

Travis Spencer
Portland, OR USA