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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.
+#
+
+#
+# For debugging new platforms, just to see what some environment flags are...
+#
+macro(SHOWFLAG flag)
+  message(STATUS "${flag} = ${${flag}}")
+endmacro(SHOWFLAG)
+
+set(NEWPLATFORMDEBUG ON)
+
+if(NEWPLATFORMDEBUG)
+  SHOWFLAG("APPLE")
+  SHOWFLAG("BORLAND")
+  SHOWFLAG("CMAKE_C_COMPILER_ID")
+  SHOWFLAG("CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER_ID")
+  SHOWFLAG("CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCC")
+  SHOWFLAG("CMAKE_COMPILER_IS_GNUCXX")
+  SHOWFLAG("CYGWIN")
+  SHOWFLAG("MINGW")
+  SHOWFLAG("MSVC")
+  SHOWFLAG("MSYS")
+  SHOWFLAG("UNIX")
+  SHOWFLAG("WATCOM")
+  SHOWFLAG("WIN32")
+endif(NEWPLATFORMDEBUG)