This will eventually go away once Sphinx starts doing all this work for
us. For now, however, let's make sure we don't break the OVS website.

This introduces a new dependency for the dist-docs script - 'rst2html'.
This tool is packaged on Ubuntu, Fedora (via 'python-docutils'), etc.
and can be installed from pip using the 'docsutils' package.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Finucane <step...@that.guru>
---
 Makefile.am         |  4 ++--
 build-aux/dist-docs | 22 +++++++++++++++++++---
 2 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 49010b3..4b01766 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ CLEAN_LOCAL =
 DISTCLEANFILES =
 PYCOV_CLEAN_FILES = build-aux/check-structs,cover
 
-# A list of Markdown-formatted documentation that will automatically be
-# included in the "make dist-docs" output.
+# A list of Markdown- or reStructuredText-formatted documentation that will
+# automatically be included in the "make dist-docs" output.
 docs = \
        CONTRIBUTING.md \
        CodingStyle.md \
diff --git a/build-aux/dist-docs b/build-aux/dist-docs
index a81e4b2..677ceeb 100755
--- a/build-aux/dist-docs
+++ b/build-aux/dist-docs
@@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ search_path () {
 }
 search_path man
 search_path markdown
+search_path rst2html
 search_path ps2pdf
 
 # Create dist-docs directory.
@@ -61,9 +62,9 @@ cat >&3 <<EOF
 <table>
 EOF
 
-# Add top-level documentation to index.html, giving it .txt extensions so
-# that the webserver doesn't serve it as Markdown and make your web browser
-# try to invoke some kind of external helper you don't have installed.
+# Add top-level documentation to index.html, giving it .txt extensions so that
+# the webserver doesn't serve it as Markdown/rST and make your web browser try
+# to invoke some kind of external helper you don't have installed.
 #
 # Also translate documentation to HTML.
 for file
@@ -92,6 +93,21 @@ EOF
 EOF
             ;;
 
+        *.rst)
+            cp "$srcdir/$file" "$distdir/$file.txt"
+            ln -s $(basename "$file.txt") "$distdir/$file"
+            rst2html "$distdir/$file.txt" --stylesheet-path="style.css" \
+                --link-stylesheet --title="$file (Open vSwitch $VERSION)" \
+                > "$distdir/$file.html"
+            cat <<EOF
+<tr>
+  <td>$file</td>
+  <td>$title</td>
+  <td><a href="$file.html">HTML</a>, <a href="$file.txt">plain text</a></td>
+</tr>
+EOF
+            ;;
+
         *)
             cp "$srcdir/$file" "$distdir/$file"
             cat <<EOF
-- 
2.7.4

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