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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.
+#
+
+EXTRA_DIST = \
+	CHANGELOG \
+	Rakefile \
+	Manifest \
+	setup.rb \
+	lib \
+	ext \
+	benchmark \
+	script \
+	spec
+
+all-local:
+	$(RUBY) setup.rb config
+	$(RUBY) setup.rb setup
+
+install-exec-hook:
+	$(RUBY) setup.rb install
+
+# Make sure this doesn't fail if Ruby is not configured.
+clean-local:
+	RUBY=$(RUBY) ; if test -z "$$RUBY" ; then RUBY=: ; fi ; \
+	$$RUBY setup.rb clean
+
+check-local: all
+if HAVE_RSPEC
+	rake spec
+endif
+