--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -6815,59 +6815,8 @@ fi
 
 
 
-# Check for asciidoc
-# Extract the first word of "a2x", so it can be a program name with args.
-set dummy a2x; ac_word=$2
-{ $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: checking for $ac_word" >&5
-$as_echo_n "checking for $ac_word... " >&6; }
-if test "${ac_cv_path_A2X+set}" = set; then :
-  $as_echo_n "(cached) " >&6
-else
-  case $A2X in
-  [\\/]* | ?:[\\/]*)
-  ac_cv_path_A2X="$A2X" # Let the user override the test with a path.
-  ;;
-  *)
-  as_save_IFS=$IFS; IFS=$PATH_SEPARATOR
-for as_dir in $PATH
-do
-  IFS=$as_save_IFS
-  test -z "$as_dir" && as_dir=.
-    for ac_exec_ext in '' $ac_executable_extensions; do
-  if { test -f "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" && $as_test_x "$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"; }; then
-    ac_cv_path_A2X="$as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext"
-    $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: found $as_dir/$ac_word$ac_exec_ext" >&5
-    break 2
-  fi
-done
-  done
-IFS=$as_save_IFS
-
-  test -z "$ac_cv_path_A2X" && ac_cv_path_A2X="no"
-  ;;
-esac
-fi
-A2X=$ac_cv_path_A2X
-if test -n "$A2X"; then
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $A2X" >&5
-$as_echo "$A2X" >&6; }
-else
-  { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: no" >&5
-$as_echo "no" >&6; }
-fi
-
-
- if test "x$A2X" != "xno"; then
-  HAVE_A2X_TRUE=
-  HAVE_A2X_FALSE='#'
-else
   HAVE_A2X_TRUE='#'
   HAVE_A2X_FALSE=
-fi
-
-if test x"$A2X" = x"no"; then
-  as_fn_error $? "Test for asciidoc failed. See the file 'INSTALL' for help." "$LINENO" 5
-fi
 
 ac_config_files="$ac_config_files Makefile src/Makefile data/Makefile data/templates/Makefile etc/Makefile docs/Makefile docs/man5/Makefile docs/man5/tinyproxy.conf.txt docs/man8/Makefile docs/man8/tinyproxy.txt m4macros/Makefile tests/Makefile tests/scripts/Makefile"
 
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -2,9 +2,7 @@ SUBDIRS = \
 	src \
 	data \
 	etc \
-	docs \
 	m4macros \
-	tests
 
 # tools want this on a single line
 ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS = -I m4macros
--- a/Makefile.in
+++ b/Makefile.in
@@ -222,9 +222,7 @@ SUBDIRS = \
 	src \
 	data \
 	etc \
-	docs \
 	m4macros \
-	tests
 
 
 # tools want this on a single line
