diff --git a/tests/test_build.py b/tests/test_build.py
index 9c73c08f0..e809f1cfe 100644
--- a/tests/test_build.py
+++ b/tests/test_build.py
@@ -3,103 +3,18 @@
     test_build
     ~~~~~~~~~~
 
-    Test the entire build process with the test root.
+    Test all builders that have no special checks.
 
     :copyright: Copyright 2007-2010 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS.
     :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.
 """
 
-import os
-import sys
-import difflib
-from StringIO import StringIO
-from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
-
-from sphinx.writers.latex import LaTeXTranslator
-
 from util import *
 
 
 def teardown_module():
     (test_root / '_build').rmtree(True)
 
-
-latex_warnfile = StringIO()
-
-ENV_WARNINGS = """\
-%(root)s/images.txt:9: WARNING: image file not readable: foo.png
-%(root)s/images.txt:23: WARNING: nonlocal image URI found: \
-http://www.python.org/logo.png
-%(root)s/includes.txt:: (WARNING/2) Encoding 'utf-8-sig' used for reading \
-included file u'wrongenc.inc' seems to be wrong, try giving an :encoding: option
-%(root)s/includes.txt:4: WARNING: download file not readable: nonexisting.png
-"""
-
-LATEX_WARNINGS = ENV_WARNINGS + """\
-None:None: WARNING: no matching candidate for image URI u'foo.*'
-WARNING: invalid pair index entry u''
-"""
-
-
-@with_app(buildername='latex', warning=latex_warnfile, cleanenv=True)
-def test_latex(app):
-    LaTeXTranslator.ignore_missing_images = True
-    app.builder.build_all()
-    latex_warnings = latex_warnfile.getvalue().replace(os.sep, '/')
-    latex_warnings_exp = LATEX_WARNINGS % {'root': app.srcdir}
-    assert latex_warnings == latex_warnings_exp, 'Warnings don\'t match:\n' + \
-           '\n'.join(difflib.ndiff(latex_warnings_exp.splitlines(),
-                                   latex_warnings.splitlines()))
-    # file from latex_additional_files
-    assert (app.outdir / 'svgimg.svg').isfile()
-
-    # only run latex if all needed packages are there
-    def kpsetest(filename):
-        try:
-            p = Popen(['kpsewhich', filename], stdout=PIPE)
-        except OSError:
-            # no kpsewhich... either no tex distribution is installed or it is
-            # a "strange" one -- don't bother running latex
-            return None
-        else:
-            p.communicate()
-            if p.returncode != 0:
-                # not found
-                return False
-            # found
-            return True
-
-    if kpsetest('article.sty') is None:
-        print >>sys.stderr, \
-              'info: not running latex, it doesn\'t seem to be installed'
-        return
-    for filename in ['fancyhdr.sty', 'fancybox.sty', 'titlesec.sty',
-                     'amsmath.sty', 'framed.sty', 'color.sty', 'fancyvrb.sty',
-                     'threeparttable.sty']:
-        if not kpsetest(filename):
-            print >>sys.stderr, \
-                  'info: not running latex, the %s package doesn\'t ' \
-                  'seem to be installed' % filename
-            return
-
-    # now, try to run latex over it
-    cwd = os.getcwd()
-    os.chdir(app.outdir)
-    try:
-        try:
-            p = Popen(['pdflatex', '--interaction=nonstopmode',
-                       'SphinxTests.tex'], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
-        except OSError:
-            pass  # most likely pdflatex was not found
-        else:
-            stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
-            if p.returncode != 0:
-                print stdout
-                del app.cleanup_trees[:]
-                assert False, 'latex exited with error'
-    finally:
-        os.chdir(cwd)
-
 # just let the remaining ones run for now
 
 @with_app(buildername='pickle')
diff --git a/tests/test_build_html.py b/tests/test_build_html.py
index 99b43e0af..5608960d6 100644
--- a/tests/test_build_html.py
+++ b/tests/test_build_html.py
@@ -22,7 +22,6 @@ except ImportError:
 
 from sphinx import __version__
 from util import *
-from test_build import ENV_WARNINGS
 from etree13 import ElementTree as ET
 
 
@@ -32,6 +31,15 @@ def teardown_module():
 
 html_warnfile = StringIO()
 
+ENV_WARNINGS = """\
+%(root)s/images.txt:9: WARNING: image file not readable: foo.png
+%(root)s/images.txt:23: WARNING: nonlocal image URI found: \
+http://www.python.org/logo.png
+%(root)s/includes.txt:: (WARNING/2) Encoding 'utf-8-sig' used for reading \
+included file u'wrongenc.inc' seems to be wrong, try giving an :encoding: option
+%(root)s/includes.txt:4: WARNING: download file not readable: nonexisting.png
+"""
+
 HTML_WARNINGS = ENV_WARNINGS + """\
 %(root)s/images.txt:20: WARNING: no matching candidate for image URI u'foo.*'
 %(root)s/markup.txt:: WARNING: invalid index entry u''
diff --git a/tests/test_build_latex.py b/tests/test_build_latex.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..96a7900b9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_build_latex.py
@@ -0,0 +1,93 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+"""
+    test_build_latex
+    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+    Test the build process with LaTeX builder with the test root.
+
+    :copyright: Copyright 2007-2010 by the Sphinx team, see AUTHORS.
+    :license: BSD, see LICENSE for details.
+"""
+
+import os
+import sys
+import difflib
+from StringIO import StringIO
+from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
+
+from sphinx.writers.latex import LaTeXTranslator
+
+from util import *
+from test_build_html import ENV_WARNINGS
+
+
+def teardown_module():
+    (test_root / '_build').rmtree(True)
+
+
+latex_warnfile = StringIO()
+
+LATEX_WARNINGS = ENV_WARNINGS + """\
+None:None: WARNING: no matching candidate for image URI u'foo.*'
+WARNING: invalid pair index entry u''
+"""
+
+
+@with_app(buildername='latex', warning=latex_warnfile, cleanenv=True)
+def test_latex(app):
+    LaTeXTranslator.ignore_missing_images = True
+    app.builder.build_all()
+    latex_warnings = latex_warnfile.getvalue().replace(os.sep, '/')
+    latex_warnings_exp = LATEX_WARNINGS % {'root': app.srcdir}
+    assert latex_warnings == latex_warnings_exp, 'Warnings don\'t match:\n' + \
+           '\n'.join(difflib.ndiff(latex_warnings_exp.splitlines(),
+                                   latex_warnings.splitlines()))
+    # file from latex_additional_files
+    assert (app.outdir / 'svgimg.svg').isfile()
+
+    # only run latex if all needed packages are there
+    def kpsetest(filename):
+        try:
+            p = Popen(['kpsewhich', filename], stdout=PIPE)
+        except OSError:
+            # no kpsewhich... either no tex distribution is installed or it is
+            # a "strange" one -- don't bother running latex
+            return None
+        else:
+            p.communicate()
+            if p.returncode != 0:
+                # not found
+                return False
+            # found
+            return True
+
+    if kpsetest('article.sty') is None:
+        print >>sys.stderr, \
+              'info: not running latex, it doesn\'t seem to be installed'
+        return
+    for filename in ['fancyhdr.sty', 'fancybox.sty', 'titlesec.sty',
+                     'amsmath.sty', 'framed.sty', 'color.sty', 'fancyvrb.sty',
+                     'threeparttable.sty']:
+        if not kpsetest(filename):
+            print >>sys.stderr, \
+                  'info: not running latex, the %s package doesn\'t ' \
+                  'seem to be installed' % filename
+            return
+
+    # now, try to run latex over it
+    cwd = os.getcwd()
+    os.chdir(app.outdir)
+    try:
+        try:
+            p = Popen(['pdflatex', '--interaction=nonstopmode',
+                       'SphinxTests.tex'], stdout=PIPE, stderr=PIPE)
+        except OSError:
+            pass  # most likely pdflatex was not found
+        else:
+            stdout, stderr = p.communicate()
+            if p.returncode != 0:
+                print stdout
+                del app.cleanup_trees[:]
+                assert False, 'latex exited with error'
+    finally:
+        os.chdir(cwd)