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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.
+#
+#
+# Contains some contributions under the Thrift Software License.
+# Please see doc/old-thrift-license.txt in the Thrift distribution for
+# details.
+
+AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = subdir-objects
+
+AM_YFLAGS = -d
+
+BUILT_SOURCES = thrifty.cc
+
+noinst_LIBRARIES = libparse.a
+
+libparse_a_CPPFLAGS = -I$(srcdir)
+libparse_a_CXXFLAGS = -Wall -Wno-sign-compare -Wno-unused
+
+libparse_a_SOURCES = thrifty.yy \
+                     thriftl.ll
+
+clean-local:
+	$(RM) thriftl.cc thrifty.cc thrifty.h thrifty.hh
+
+if WITH_PLUGIN
+noinst_PROGRAMS = thrift-bootstrap
+
+thrift_bootstrap_SOURCES = \
+                 common.h \
+                 common.cc \
+                 audit/t_audit.h \
+                 audit/t_audit.cpp \
+                 generate/t_generator.cc \
+                 generate/t_generator_registry.h \
+                 globals.h \
+                 platform.h \
+                 logging.h \
+                 parse/t_doc.h \
+                 parse/t_type.h \
+                 parse/t_base_type.h \
+                 parse/t_enum.h \
+                 parse/t_enum_value.h \
+                 parse/t_typedef.h \
+                 parse/t_typedef.cc \
+                 parse/t_container.h \
+                 parse/t_list.h \
+                 parse/t_set.h \
+                 parse/t_map.h \
+                 parse/t_struct.h \
+                 parse/t_field.h \
+                 parse/t_service.h \
+                 parse/t_function.h \
+                 parse/t_program.h \
+                 parse/t_scope.h \
+                 parse/t_const.h \
+                 parse/t_const_value.h \
+                 parse/parse.cc \
+                 generate/t_generator.h \
+                 generate/t_oop_generator.h \
+                 generate/t_html_generator.h \
+                 windows/config.h \
+                 windows/version.h \
+                 generate/t_cpp_generator.cc \
+                 main.h \
+                 main.cc
+
+main.cc: version.h
+
+thrift_bootstrap_CXXFLAGS = -Wall -Wextra -pedantic
+thrift_bootstrap_LDADD = @LEXLIB@ libparse.a
+endif