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-.gitignore
-CHANGES
-CONTRIBUTORS
-autoscan.log
-config.guess
-config.log
-config.status
-config.sub
-configure
-configure.scan
-depcomp
-install-sh
-libtool
-ltmain.sh
-missing
-stamp-h1
-ylwrap
-*.m4
-autom4te.cache
-thrifty.h
-thrifty.hh
-version.h
-version.h.in
-md5.c
-md5.h
-doc
-lib/erl/vsn.mk
-/lib/erl/build/**/*
-lib/erl/src/Makefile
-thrift.appup.src
-OCamlMakefile
-README-OCamlMakefile
-TODO
-Manifest
-setup.rb