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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.
+#
+
+#define thrift_template
+#  $(1) : $(2)
+#	$$(THRIFT) $(3) $(4) $(5) $(6) $(7) $(8) $$<
+#endef
+
+define thrift_template
+XTARGET := $(shell perl -e '@val = split("\/","$(2)"); $$last = pop(@val);split("\\.",$$last);print "$(1)/"."gen-cpp/"."@_[0]"."_types.cpp\n"' )
+
+ifneq ($$(XBUILT_SOURCES),) 
+    XBUILT_SOURCES := $$(XBUILT_SOURCES) $$(XTARGET)
+else
+    XBUILT_SOURCES := $$(XTARGET)
+endif
+$$(XTARGET) : $(2)
+	$$(THRIFT) -o $1 $3 $$<
+endef
+
+clean-common:
+	rm -rf gen-*