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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_builddir)/compiler/cpp/thrift
+
+# Remove "MapType =" line to ignore some map bug for now
+stubs: ../ThriftTest.thrift $(THRIFT)
+	$(THRIFT) --gen lua $<
+	$(SED) -i 's/MapType =//g' gen-lua/ThriftTest_ttypes.lua
+
+precross: stubs
+
+clean-local:
+	$(RM) -r gen-lua