diff --git a/playground/rst/wscript b/playground/rst/wscript
index f3f03a56..b7638993 100644
--- a/playground/rst/wscript
+++ b/playground/rst/wscript
@@ -3,6 +3,8 @@
 import os, re, subprocess
 from waflib import Options, TaskGen, Utils
 
+top = out = '.'
+
 def options(opt):
 	opt.load('rst')
 	opt.load('tex')
@@ -20,32 +22,20 @@ def build(bld):
 
 	bld(
 	 target='generated.rst',
-	 rule=lambda tsk: Utils.writef( tsk.outputs[0].abspath(), "Generated contents in %s" % tsk.outputs[0].name),
+	 rule=lambda tsk: tsk.outputs[0].write("Generated contents in %s" % tsk.outputs[0].name),
 	)
-	
+
 	bld(
 	 target='generated.csv',
-	 rule=lambda tsk: Utils.writef( tsk.outputs[0].abspath(), "a,b,c\n1,2,%s" % tsk.outputs[0].name),
+	 rule=lambda tsk: tsk.outputs[0].write("a,b,c\n1,2,%s" % tsk.outputs[0].name),
 	)
-	
+
 	bld(
 	 target='generated.html',
-	 rule=lambda tsk: Utils.writef( tsk.outputs[0].abspath(), "<p>Generated HTML data</p>"),
+	 rule=lambda tsk: tsk.outputs[0].write("<p>Generated HTML data</p>"),
 	)
 
-	bld(
-	 features='rst',
-	 target='test1.html',
-	 source='test1.rst',
-	)
-	
-	bld(
-	 features='rst',
-	 target='test1.pdf',
-	 source='test1.rst',
-	)
-
-	for x in bld.path.ant_glob("**/*.svg"):
+	for x in bld.path.ant_glob("**/*.svg", remove=False):
 		bld(
 		 rule='inkscape --export-area-drawing --export-png=${TGT[0].bldpath()} ${SRC[0].bldpath()}',
 		 source=x,
@@ -57,9 +47,24 @@ def build(bld):
 		 target=x.change_ext('.pdf'),
 		)
 
+	bld.add_group()
+
+	bld(
+	 features='rst',
+	 target='test1.html',
+	 source='test1.rst',
+	)
+
+	if bld.env.RST2PDF:
+		bld(
+			features='rst',
+			target='test1.pdf',
+			source='test1.rst',
+		)
+
 	bld(
 	 target='generated.tex',
-	 rule=lambda tsk: Utils.writef( tsk.outputs[0].abspath(), "Generated contents in %s" % tsk.outputs[0].name),
+	 rule=lambda tsk: tsk.outputs[0].write("Generated contents in %s" % tsk.outputs[0].name)),
 	)
 
 	bld(
diff --git a/waflib/extras/rst.py b/waflib/extras/rst.py
index f3c3a5eb..58b9e173 100644
--- a/waflib/extras/rst.py
+++ b/waflib/extras/rst.py
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ rst_progs = "rst2html rst2xetex rst2latex rst2xml rst2pdf rst2s5 rst2man rst2odt
 def parse_rst_node(task, node, nodes, names, seen, dirs=None):
 	# TODO add extensibility, to handle custom rst include tags...
 	if dirs is None:
-		dirs = (node.parent,node.get_bld().parent)
+		dirs = (node.parent, node.parent.get_bld())
 
 	if node in seen:
 		return