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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.
+#
+
+SUBDIRS = test
+
+Makefile-perl.mk : Makefile.PL
+	$(PERL) Makefile.PL MAKEFILE=Makefile-perl.mk INSTALLDIRS=$(INSTALLDIRS)
+
+all-local: Makefile-perl.mk
+	$(MAKE) -f Makefile-perl.mk
+	find blib -name 'Makefile*' -exec rm -f {} \;
+
+check-local:
+	$(PERL) -Iblib/lib -I@abs_srcdir@ -I@builddir@/test/gen-perl \
+		@abs_srcdir@/test.pl @abs_srcdir@/test/*.t
+
+install-exec-local: Makefile-perl.mk
+	$(MAKE) -f Makefile-perl.mk install DESTDIR=$(DESTDIR)/
+
+clean-local:
+	if test -f Makefile-perl.mk ; then \
+		$(MAKE) -f Makefile-perl.mk clean ; \
+	fi
+	rm -f Makefile-perl.mk.old
+
+EXTRA_DIST = \
+	Makefile.PL \
+	test.pl \
+	lib/Thrift.pm \
+	lib/Thrift.pm \
+	lib/Thrift/BinaryProtocol.pm \
+	lib/Thrift/BufferedTransport.pm \
+	lib/Thrift/FramedTransport.pm \
+	lib/Thrift/HttpClient.pm \
+	lib/Thrift/MemoryBuffer.pm \
+	lib/Thrift/Protocol.pm \
+	lib/Thrift/Socket.pm \
+	lib/Thrift/Transport.pm