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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.
+#
+
+MODULES = \
+	src
+
+all clean docs:
+	for dir in $(MODULES); do \
+		(cd $$dir; ${MAKE} $@); \
+	done
+
+install: all
+	echo 'No install target, sorry.'
+
+check: all
+
+distclean: clean
+
+# Hack to make "make dist" work.
+# This should not work, but it appears to.
+distdir: