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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.
+#
+
+AC_PREREQ(2.59)
+
+AC_INIT([thrift], [0.1-dev])
+
+AC_CONFIG_AUX_DIR([.])
+
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE
+
+AC_ARG_VAR([PY_PREFIX], [Prefix for installing Python modules.
+                         (Normal --prefix is ignored for Python because
+                         Python has different conventions.)
+                         Default = "/usr"])
+AS_IF([test "x$PY_PREFIX" = x], [PY_PREFIX="/usr"])
+
+AC_ARG_VAR([JAVA_PREFIX], [Prefix for installing the Java lib jar.
+                           (Normal --prefix is ignored for Java because
+                           Java has different conevntions.)
+                           Default = "/usr/local/lib"])
+AS_IF([test "x$JAVA_PREFIX" = x], [JAVA_PREFIX="/usr/local/lib"])
+
+AC_PROG_CC
+AC_PROG_CPP
+AC_PROG_CXX
+AC_PROG_INSTALL
+AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
+AC_PROG_MAKE_SET
+AC_PROG_YACC
+AC_PROG_LEX
+AM_PROG_LEX
+AC_PROG_LN_S
+AC_PROG_MKDIR_P
+
+AC_LANG([C++])
+AX_BOOST_BASE([1.33.1])
+
+AX_LIB_EVENT([1.0])
+AM_CONDITIONAL([AMX_HAVE_LIBEVENT], [test "$success" = "yes"])
+
+AX_LIB_ZLIB([1.2.3])
+AM_CONDITIONAL([AMX_HAVE_ZLIB], [test "$success" = "yes"])
+
+AX_THRIFT_LIB(csharp, [C#], yes)
+if test "$with_csharp" = "yes";  then
+  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(MONO, mono >= 2.0.0, net_3_5=yes, net_3_5=no)
+  PKG_CHECK_MODULES(MONO, mono >= 1.2.4, have_mono=yes, have_mono=no)
+fi
+AM_CONDITIONAL(WITH_MONO, [test "$have_mono" = "yes"])
+AM_CONDITIONAL(NET_2_0, [test "$net_3_5" = "no"])
+
+AX_THRIFT_LIB(java, [Java], yes)
+if test "$with_java" = "yes";  then
+  AX_JAVAC_AND_JAVA
+  AC_PATH_PROG([ANT], [ant])
+fi
+AM_CONDITIONAL([WITH_JAVA],
+               [test -n "$ANT" -a -n "$JAVA" -a -n "$JAVAC"])
+
+AX_THRIFT_LIB(erlang, [Erlang], yes)
+if test "$with_erlang" = "yes";  then
+  AC_PATH_PROG([ERLC], [erlc])
+fi
+AM_CONDITIONAL(WITH_ERLANG, [test -n "$ERLC"])
+
+AX_THRIFT_LIB(py, [Python], yes)
+if test "$with_py" = "yes";  then
+  AM_PATH_PYTHON(2.4,, :)
+fi
+AM_CONDITIONAL(WITH_PYTHON, [test -n "$PYTHON" -a "$PYTHON" != ":"])
+
+AX_THRIFT_LIB(perl, [Perl], yes)
+if test "$with_perl" = "yes"; then
+  AC_PATH_PROG([PERL], [perl])
+fi
+AM_CONDITIONAL(WITH_PERL, [test -n "$PERL"])
+
+AX_THRIFT_LIB(ruby, [Ruby], yes)
+if test "$with_ruby" = "yes"; then
+  AC_PATH_PROG([RUBY], [ruby])
+  AC_PATH_PROG([RSPEC], [spec])
+fi
+AM_CONDITIONAL(WITH_RUBY, [test -n "$RUBY"])
+AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_RSPEC, [test -n "$RSPEC"])
+
+
+AC_C_CONST
+AC_C_INLINE
+AC_C_VOLATILE
+
+AC_HEADER_STDBOOL
+AC_HEADER_STDC
+AC_HEADER_TIME
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([arpa/inet.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([endian.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([fcntl.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([inttypes.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([limits.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([netdb.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([netinet/in.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([pthread.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([stddef.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([stdlib.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/socket.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([sys/time.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([unistd.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([libintl.h])
+AC_CHECK_HEADERS([malloc.h])
+
+AC_CHECK_LIB(pthread, pthread_create)
+AC_CHECK_LIB(rt, sched_get_priority_min)
+
+AC_TYPE_INT16_T
+AC_TYPE_INT32_T
+AC_TYPE_INT64_T
+AC_TYPE_INT8_T
+AC_TYPE_MODE_T
+AC_TYPE_OFF_T
+AC_TYPE_SIZE_T
+AC_TYPE_SSIZE_T
+AC_TYPE_UINT16_T
+AC_TYPE_UINT32_T
+AC_TYPE_UINT64_T
+AC_TYPE_UINT8_T
+AC_CHECK_TYPES([ptrdiff_t], [], [exit 1])
+
+AC_STRUCT_TM
+
+AC_FUNC_ALLOCA
+AC_FUNC_MALLOC
+AC_FUNC_MEMCMP
+AC_FUNC_REALLOC
+AC_FUNC_SELECT_ARGTYPES
+AC_FUNC_STAT
+AC_FUNC_STRERROR_R
+AC_FUNC_STRFTIME
+AC_FUNC_VPRINTF
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strtoul])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([bzero])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([clock_gettime])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([ftruncate])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([gethostbyname])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([gettimeofday])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([memmove])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([memset])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([mkdir])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([realpath])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([select])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([socket])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strchr])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strdup])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strerror])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strstr])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([strtol])
+AC_CHECK_FUNCS([sqrt])
+
+AX_SIGNED_RIGHT_SHIFT
+
+AX_THRIFT_GEN(cpp, [C++], yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([THRIFT_GEN_cpp], [test "$ax_thrift_gen_cpp" = "yes"])
+AX_THRIFT_GEN(java, [Java], yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([THRIFT_GEN_java], [test "$ax_thrift_gen_java" = "yes"])
+AX_THRIFT_GEN(csharp, [C#], yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([THRIFT_GEN_csharp], [test "$ax_thrift_gen_csharp" = "yes"])
+AX_THRIFT_GEN(py, [Python], yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([THRIFT_GEN_py], [test "$ax_thrift_gen_py" = "yes"])
+AX_THRIFT_GEN(rb, [Ruby], yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([THRIFT_GEN_rb], [test "$ax_thrift_gen_rb" = "yes"])
+AX_THRIFT_GEN(perl, [Perl], yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([THRIFT_GEN_perl], [test "$ax_thrift_gen_perl" = "yes"])
+AX_THRIFT_GEN(php, [PHP], yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([THRIFT_GEN_php], [test "$ax_thrift_gen_php" = "yes"])
+AX_THRIFT_GEN(erl, [Erlang], yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([THRIFT_GEN_erl], [test "$ax_thrift_gen_erl" = "yes"])
+AX_THRIFT_GEN(cocoa, [Cocoa], yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([THRIFT_GEN_cocoa], [test "$ax_thrift_gen_cocoa" = "yes"])
+AX_THRIFT_GEN(st, [Smalltalk], yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([THRIFT_GEN_st], [test "$ax_thrift_gen_st" = "yes"])
+AX_THRIFT_GEN(ocaml, [OCaml], yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([THRIFT_GEN_ocaml], [test "$ax_thrift_gen_ocaml" = "yes"])
+AX_THRIFT_GEN(hs, [Haskell], yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([THRIFT_GEN_hs], [test "$ax_thrift_gen_hs" = "yes"])
+AX_THRIFT_GEN(xsd, [XSD], yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([THRIFT_GEN_xsd], [test "$ax_thrift_gen_xsd" = "yes"])
+AX_THRIFT_GEN(html, [HTML], yes)
+AM_CONDITIONAL([THRIFT_GEN_html], [test "$ax_thrift_gen_html" = "yes"])
+
+AC_CONFIG_HEADERS(config.h:config.hin)
+
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([
+  Makefile
+  compiler/cpp/Makefile
+  lib/Makefile
+  lib/cpp/Makefile
+  lib/cpp/thrift.pc
+  lib/cpp/thrift-nb.pc
+  lib/cpp/thrift-z.pc
+  lib/csharp/Makefile
+  lib/java/Makefile
+  lib/perl/Makefile
+  lib/perl/test/Makefile
+  lib/py/Makefile
+  lib/rb/Makefile
+  test/Makefile
+  test/py/Makefile
+  test/rb/Makefile
+])
+
+AC_OUTPUT