From gpgme git master, i did:
./autogen.sh mkdir -p build cd build ../configure --enable-maintainer-mode --enable-languages='cpp qt python' --enable-doc --prefix=/usr --infodir=/usr/share/info --enable-static make -j3 distcheck
and it fails fairly early on with this error message:
make[7]: Entering directory '/home/dkg/src/pkg-gnupg/gpgme/build/lang/python/doc' make distdir-am make[8]: Entering directory '/home/dkg/src/pkg-gnupg/gpgme/build/lang/python/doc' make[8]: *** No rule to make target 'rst/gpgme-python-howto.rst', needed by 'distdir-am'. Stop. make[8]: Leaving directory '/home/dkg/src/pkg-gnupg/gpgme/build/lang/python/doc' make[7]: *** [Makefile:432: distdir] Error 2