Integrate Sphinx into autotools

Integrate Sphinx into autotools
- Remove M4 macros and require as external dependencies instead
- Skip help2man generation if help2man is not installed
- ensure THANKS file is only updated during make distcheck
- Add TexInfo, PDF, HTML doc targets via Sphinx
- Add licenses and header compliance checking
- support optional builds of PDF, HTML, texinfo via Sphinx and pdflatex
- support skipping docs or compiler tests for happy developers

Travis: clean up package dependencies
- include sphinx via aptitude
- use spidermonkey 1.8.5 instead of default libmozjs
- include latex components for building PDFs

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+Apache CouchDB THANKS
+=====================
+
+A number of people have contributed to Apache CouchDB by reporting problems,
+suggesting improvements or submitting changes. Some of these people are:
+
+ * William Beh <willbeh@gmail.com>
+ * Dirk Schalge <dirk@epd-me.net>
+ * Roger Leigh <rleigh@debian.org>
+ * Sam Ruby <rubys@intertwingly.net>
+ * Carlos Valiente <superdupont@gmail.com>
+ * Till Klampaeckel <till@klampaeckel.de>
+ * Jim Lindley <web@jimlindley.com>
+ * Yoan Blanc <yoan.blanc@gmail.com>
+ * Michael Gottesman <gottesmm@reed.edu>
+ * Mark Baran <mebaran@gmail.com>
+ * Michael Hendricks <michael@ndrix.org>
+ * Antony Blakey <antony.blakey@gmail.com>
+ * Paul Carey <paul.p.carey@gmail.com>
+ * Hunter Morris <huntermorris@gmail.com>
+ * Brian Palmer <jira@brian.codekitchen.net>
+ * Maximillian Dornseif <md@hudora.de>
+ * Eric Casteleijn <eric.casteleijn@canonical.com>
+ * Maarten Thibaut <mthibaut@cisco.com>
+ * Florian Ebeling <florian.ebeling@gmail.com>
+ * Volker Mische <volker.mische@gmail.com>
+ * Brian Candler <B.Candler@pobox.com>
+ * Brad Anderson <brad@sankatygroup.com>
+ * Nick Gerakines <nick@gerakines.net>
+ * Kevin Ilchmann Jørgensen <kijmail@gmail.com>
+ * Dirkjan Ochtman <dirkjan@ochtman.nl>
+ * Sebastian Cohnen <sebastian.cohnen@gmx.net>
+ * Sven Helmberger <sven.helmberger@gmx.de>
+ * Dan Walters <dan@danwalters.net>
+ * Curt Arnold <carnold@apache.org>
+ * Gustavo Niemeyer
+ * Joshua Bronson <jabronson@gmail.com>
+ * Kostis Sagonas <kostis@cs.ntua.gr>
+ * Matthew Hooker <mwhooker@gmail.com>
+ * Ilia Cheishvili <ilia.cheishvili@gmail.com>
+ * Lena Herrmann <lena@zeromail.org>
+ * Jack Moffit <metajack@gmail.com>
+ * Damjan Georgievski <gdamjan@gmail.com>
+ * Jan Kassens <jan@kassens.net>
+ * James Marca <jmarca@translab.its.uci.edu>
+ * Matt Goodall <matt.goodall@gmail.com>
+ * Joel Clark <unsigned_char@yahoo.com>
+ * Matt Lyon <matt@flowerpowered.com>
+ * mikeal <mikeal.rogers@gmail.com>
+ * Joscha Feth <joscha@feth.com>
+ * Jarrod Roberson <jarrod@vertigrated.com>
+ * Jae Kwon <jkwon.work@gmail.com>
+ * Gavin Sherry <swm@alcove.com.au>
+ * Timothy Smith <tim@couch.io>
+ * Martin Haaß <MartinHaass@gmx.net>
+ * Hans Ulrich Niedermann <hun@n-dimensional.de>
+ * Dmitry Unkovsky <oil.crayons@gmail.com>
+ * Zachary Zolton <zachary.zolton@gmail.com>
+ * Brian Jenkins <bonkydog@bonkydog.com>
+ * Paul Bonser <pib@paulbonser.com>
+ * Caleb Land <caleb.land@gmail.com>
+ * Juhani Ränkimies <juhani@juranki.com>
+ * Kev Jackson <foamdino@gmail.com>
+ * Jonathan D. Knezek <jdknezek@gmail.com>
+ * David Rose <doppler@gmail.com>
+ * Lim Yue Chuan <shasderias@gmail.com>
+ * David Davis <xantus@xantus.org>
+ * Klaus Trainer <klaus.trainer@web.de>
+ * Juuso Väänänen <juuso@vaananen.org>
+ * Jeff Zellner <jeff.zellner@gmail.com>
+ * Benjamin Young <byoung@bigbluehat.com>
+ * Gabriel Farrell <gsf747@gmail.com>
+ * Mike Leddy <mike@loop.com.br>
+ * Wayne Conrad <wayne@databill.com>
+ * Thomas Vander Stichele <thomas@apestaart.org>
+ * Felix Hummel <apache@felixhummel.de>
+ * Tim Smith <tim@couchbase.com>
+ * Dipesh Patel <dipthegeezer.opensource@googlemail.com>
+ * Sam Bisbee <sam@sbisbee.com>
+ * Nathan Vander Wilt <natevw@yahoo.com>
+ * Caolan McMahon <caolan.mcmahon@googlemail.com>
+ * Andrey Somov <trophybase@gmail.com>
+ * Chris Coulson <chrisccoulson.googlemail.com>
+ * Trond Norbye <trond.norbye@gmail.com>
+ * Alexander Shorin <kxepal@gmail.com>
+ * Christopher Bonhage <queezey@me.com>
+ * Christian Carter <cdcarter@gmail.com>
+ * Lukasz Mielicki <mielicki@gmail.com>
+ * Omar Yasin <omarkj@gmail.com
+ * Matt Cooley <matt@mattcooley.net>
+ * Simon Leblanc <sim.leblanc+apache@gmail.com>
+ * Rogutės Sparnuotos <rogutes@googlemail.com>
+ * Gavin McDonald <gmcdonald@apache.org>
+ * Fedor Indutny <fedor@indutny.com>
+ * Tim Blair
+ * Tady Walsh <hello@tady.me>
+# Authors from commit 6c976bd and onwards are auto-inserted. If you are merging
+# a commit from a non-committer, you should not add an entry to this file. When
+# `bootstrap` is run, the actual THANKS file will be generated.