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+Thrift C++ Software Library
+
+README Author: Mark Slee (mcslee@facebook.com)
+Last Modified: 2007-Mar-05
+
+Thrift is distributed under the Thrift open source software license.
+Please see the included LICENSE file.
+
+Using Thrift with C++
+=====================
+
+The Thrift C++ libraries are built using the GNU tools. Follow the instructions
+in the top-level README, or run bootstrap.sh in this folder to generate the
+Makefiles.
+
+In case you do not want to open another README file, do this:
+  ./bootstrap.sh
+  ./configure (--with-boost=/usr/local)
+  make
+  sudo make install
+
+Thrift is divided into two libraries.
+
+libthrift
+  The core Thrift library contains all the core Thrift code. It requires
+  boost shared pointers, pthreads, and librt.
+
+libthriftnb
+  This library contains the Thrift nonblocking server, which uses libevent.
+  To link this library you will also need to link libevent.
+
+Linking Against Thrift
+======================
+
+After you build and install Thrift the libraries are installed to
+/usr/local/lib by default. Make sure this is in your LDPATH.
+
+On Linux, the best way to do this is to ensure that /usr/local/lib is in
+your /etc/ld.so.conf and then run /sbin/ldconfig.
+
+Depending upon whether you are linking dynamically or statically and how
+your build environment it set up, you may need to include additional
+libraries when linking against thrift, such as librt and/or libpthread. If
+you are using libthriftnb you will also need libevent.
+
+Dependencies
+============
+
+boost shared pointers
+http://www.boost.org/libs/smart_ptr/smart_ptr.htm
+
+libevent (for libthriftnb only)
+http://monkey.org/~provos/libevent/