Merge pull request matplotlib#2187 from mdboom/build-docs-from-tarball

Building documentation from the tarball fails

Author: mdboom

doc/make.py

@@ -236,6 +236,19 @@ def all():
 os.chdir(os.path.dirname(os.path.join(current_dir, __file__)))
 copy_if_out_of_date('../INSTALL', 'users/installing.rst')
 
+# Create the examples symlink, if it doesn't exist
+
+required_symlinks = [
+    ('mpl_examples', '../examples/'),
+    ('mpl_toolkits/axes_grid/examples', '../../../examples/axes_grid/')
+    ]
+
+for link, target in required_symlinks:
+    if not os.path.exists(link):
+        if hasattr(os, 'symlink'):
+            os.symlink(target, link)
+        else:
+            shutil.copytree(os.path.join(link, '..', target), link)
 
 if len(sys.argv)>1:
     if '--small' in sys.argv[1:]: