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+#
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+
+setup-local-lisp-env: ../../lib/cl/ensure-externals.sh
+	bash ../../lib/cl/ensure-externals.sh
+
+gen-cl: $(top_srcdir)/tutorial/tutorial.thrift
+	$(THRIFT) --gen cl -r $<
+
+ALL_FILE_PREREQS = \
+		   load-locally.lisp \
+		   make-tutorial-server.lisp \
+		   make-tutorial-client.lisp \
+		   shared-implementation.lisp \
+		   thrift-tutorial.asd \
+		   tutorial-implementation.lisp
+
+# NOTE: the server and client cannot be built in parallel
+# because on loading the make-tutorial-* scripts SBCL will
+# attempt to compile their dependencies. Unfortunately,
+# because their dependencies are shared, parallel jobs can
+# end up overwriting or corrupting the compiled files
+all-local: gen-cl setup-local-lisp-env $(ALL_FILE_PREREQS)
+	$(SBCL) --script make-tutorial-server.lisp
+	$(SBCL) --script make-tutorial-client.lisp
+
+tutorialserver: all
+	./TutorialServer
+
+tutorialclient: all
+	./TutorialClient
+
+clean-local:
+	-$(RM) -r gen-*
+	-$(RM) -r externals
+	-$(RM) -r quicklisp
+	-$(RM) -r lib
+	-$(RM) quicklisp.lisp
+	-$(RM) backport-update.zip
+	-$(RM) shared-implementation.fasl
+	-$(RM) tutorial-implementation.fasl
+	-$(RM) TutorialServer
+	-$(RM) TutorialClient
+
+EXTRA_DIST = \
+	tutorial-implementation.lisp \
+	shared-implementation.lisp \
+	thrift-tutorial.asd \
+	make-tutorial-server.lisp \
+	make-tutorial-client.lisp \
+	load-locally.lisp