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+Thrift C++ Software Library
+
+License
+=======
+
+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.
+
+Using Thrift with C++
+=====================
+
+The Thrift C++ libraries are built using the GNU tools. Follow the instructions
+in the top-level README, or run bootstrap.sh in this folder to generate the
+Makefiles.
+
+In case you do not want to open another README file, do this:
+  ./bootstrap.sh
+  ./configure (--with-boost=/usr/local)
+  make
+  sudo make install
+
+Thrift is divided into two libraries.
+
+libthrift
+  The core Thrift library contains all the core Thrift code. It requires
+  boost shared pointers, pthreads, and librt.
+
+libthriftnb
+  This library contains the Thrift nonblocking server, which uses libevent.
+  To link this library you will also need to link libevent.
+
+Linking Against Thrift
+======================
+
+After you build and install Thrift the libraries are installed to
+/usr/local/lib by default. Make sure this is in your LDPATH.
+
+On Linux, the best way to do this is to ensure that /usr/local/lib is in
+your /etc/ld.so.conf and then run /sbin/ldconfig.
+
+Depending upon whether you are linking dynamically or statically and how
+your build environment it set up, you may need to include additional
+libraries when linking against thrift, such as librt and/or libpthread. If
+you are using libthriftnb you will also need libevent.
+
+Dependencies
+============
+
+boost shared pointers
+http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm
+
+libevent (for libthriftnb only)
+http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/