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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.
+#
+
+THRIFT = $(top_srcdir)/compiler/cpp/thrift
+REBAR = $(top_srcdir)/lib/erl/rebar
+
+THRIFT_FILES = $(wildcard ../*.thrift)
+
+.generated: $(THRIFT_FILES)
+	for f in $(THRIFT_FILES) ; do \
+	  $(THRIFT) --gen erl $$f ; \
+	done ; \
+	touch .generated
+
+check: .generated
+	$(REBAR) eunit
+
+clean:
+	rm -f .generated
+	rm -rf gen-erl
+	$(REBAR) clean