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+# -*- mode: ruby -*-
+# vi: set ft=ruby :
+
+#
+# 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.
+#
+
+$script = <<SCRIPT
+echo I am provisioning for Apache Thrift ...
+sudo apt-get update -qq -y
+sudo apt-get upgrade -qq -y
+sudo apt-get install -qq libboost-dev libboost-test-dev libboost-program-options-dev libevent-dev automake libtool flex bison pkg-config g++ libssl-dev make libqt4-dev
+sudo apt-get install -qq ant openjdk-7-jdk
+sudo apt-get install -qq python-all python-all-dev python-all-dbg
+sudo apt-get install -qq libbit-vector-perl
+sudo apt-get install -qq php5-dev php5-cli phpunit
+sudo apt-get install -qq libglib2.0-dev
+sudo apt-get install -qq git erlang-base erlang-eunit erlang-dev
+sudo apt-get install -qq mono-gmcs mono-devel libmono-system-web2.0-cil
+#sudo apt-get install -qq ghc6 cabal-install libghc6-binary-dev libghc6-network-dev libghc6-http-dev
+sudo apt-get install -qq mingw32 mingw32-binutils mingw32-runtime
+echo I am building Apache Thrift ...
+cd /thrift
+sh bootstrap.sh
+sh configure
+make
+make dist
+make check
+#sh test/test.sh
+date > /etc/vagrant_provisioned_at
+SCRIPT
+
+Vagrant.configure("2") do |config|
+  # Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
+  config.vm.box = "precise64"
+  config.vm.box_url = "http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/precise-server-cloudimg-vagrant-amd64-disk1.box"
+  # config.vm.box = "precise32"
+  # config.vm.box_url = "http://cloud-images.ubuntu.com/precise/current/precise-server-cloudimg-vagrant-i386-disk1.box"
+
+  config.vm.synced_folder "../", "/thrift"
+
+  # call the script
+  config.vm.provision :shell, :inline => $script
+end