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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.
+#
+
+THRIFT = $(top_srcdir)/compiler/cpp/thrift
+
+py_unit_tests =                                 \
+        SerializationTest.py                    \
+        TestEof.py                              \
+        TestSyntax.py                           \
+        RunClientServer.py
+
+thrift_gen =                                    \
+        gen-py/ThriftTest/__init__.py           \
+        gen-py/DebugProtoTest/__init__.py
+
+helper_scripts=                                 \
+        TestClient.py                           \
+        TestServer.py
+
+check_SCRIPTS=                                  \
+        $(thrift_gen)                           \
+        $(py_unit_tests)                        \
+        $(helper_scripts)
+
+TESTS= $(py_unit_tests)
+
+
+gen-py/%/__init__.py: ../%.thrift
+	$(THRIFT) --gen py $<
+
+clean-local:
+	$(RM) -r gen-py