From efd713b82b49db333a3a7edda450e69b53dc03ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Benjamin Peterson <benjamin@python.org>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2014 20:22:24 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] allow archives for rc releases to be built (closes #22484)

---
 Doc/Makefile | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Doc/Makefile b/Doc/Makefile
index 43dd80478a1..ec35c12873c 100644
--- a/Doc/Makefile
+++ b/Doc/Makefile
@@ -165,9 +165,10 @@ autobuild-dev:
 autobuild-html:
 	make html SPHINXOPTS='-A daily=1 -A versionswitcher=1'
 
-# for stable releases: only build if not in pre-release stage (alpha, beta, rc)
+# for stable releases: only build if not in pre-release stage (alpha, beta)
+# release candidate downloads are okay, since the stable tree can be in that stage
 autobuild-stable:
-	@case $(DISTVERSION) in *[abc]*) \
+	@case $(DISTVERSION) in *[ab]*) \
 		echo "Not building; $(DISTVERSION) is not a release version."; \
 		exit 1;; \
 	esac