diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f8c3dfca..e5234a3d 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -39,13 +39,3 @@ testsuite/results
 testsuite/iproute2/iproute2-this
 testsuite/tools/generate_nlmsg
 testsuite/tests/ip/link/dev_wo_vf_rate.nl
-
-# doc files generated at runtime
-doc/*.aux
-doc/*.log
-doc/*.toc
-doc/*.ps
-doc/*.dvi
-doc/*.html
-doc/*.pdf
-doc/*.out
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index d6832464..f7c2d7a7 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -17,18 +17,6 @@ check_prog()
     command -v $1 >/dev/null 2>&1 && (echo "$3:=y" >> $CONFIG; echo "yes") || (echo "no"; return 1)
 }
 
-check_docs()
-{
-    if check_prog latex " latex: " HAVE_LATEX; then
-        check_prog pdflatex " pdflatex: " HAVE_PDFLATEX || echo " WARNING: no PDF docs can be built from LaTeX files"
-        check_prog sgml2latex " sgml2latex: " HAVE_SGML2LATEX || echo " WARNING: no LaTeX files can be build from SGML files"
-    else
-        echo " WARNING: no docs can be built from LaTeX files"
-    fi
-
-    check_prog sgml2html " sgml2html: " HAVE_SGML2HTML || echo " WARNING: no HTML docs can be built from SGML"
-}
-
 check_toolchain()
 {
     : ${PKG_CONFIG:=pkg-config}
@@ -422,11 +410,6 @@ check_berkeley_db
 echo -n "need for strlcpy: "
 check_strlcpy
 
-echo
-echo -n "docs:"
-check_docs
-echo
-
 echo >> $CONFIG
 echo "%.o: %.c" >> $CONFIG
 echo '	$(QUIET_CC)$(CC) $(CFLAGS) $(EXTRA_CFLAGS) -c -o $@ $<' >> $CONFIG