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+#!/bin/sh
+
+#
+# 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.
+#
+
+topsrcdir="`dirname $0`"
+cd "$topsrcdir"
+
+make -k clean >/dev/null 2>&1
+make -k distclean >/dev/null 2>&1
+find . -name Makefile.in -exec rm -f {} \;
+rm -rf \
+AUTHORS \
+ChangeLog \
+INSTALL \
+Makefile \
+Makefile.in \
+Makefile.orig \
+aclocal.m4 \
+autom4te.cache \
+autoscan.log \
+config.guess \
+config.h \
+config.hin \
+config.hin~ \
+config.log \
+config.status \
+config.status.lineno \
+config.sub \
+configure \
+configure.lineno \
+configure.scan \
+depcomp \
+.deps \
+install-sh \
+.libs \
+libtool \
+ltmain.sh \
+missing \
+ylwrap \
+if/gen-* \
+test/gen-*