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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.
+#
+
+
+include(CheckSymbolExists)
+include(CheckIncludeFile)
+include(CheckIncludeFiles)
+include(CheckFunctionExists)
+
+# If AI_ADDRCONFIG is not defined we define it as 0
+check_symbol_exists(AI_ADDRCONFIG "sys/types.h;sys/socket.h;netdb.h" HAVE_AI_ADDRCONFIG)
+if(NOT HAVE_AI_ADDRCONFIG)
+set(AI_ADDRCONFIG 1)
+endif(NOT HAVE_AI_ADDRCONFIG)
+
+check_include_file(arpa/inet.h HAVE_ARPA_INET_H)
+check_include_file(fcntl.h HAVE_FCNTL_H)
+check_include_file(inttypes.h HAVE_INTTYPES_H)
+check_include_file(netdb.h HAVE_NETDB_H)
+check_include_file(netinet/in.h HAVE_NETINET_IN_H)
+check_include_file(stdint.h HAVE_STDINT_H)
+check_include_file(unistd.h HAVE_UNISTD_H)
+check_include_file(pthread.h HAVE_PTHREAD_H)
+check_include_file(sys/time.h HAVE_SYS_TIME_H)
+check_include_file(sys/param.h HAVE_SYS_PARAM_H)
+check_include_file(sys/resource.h HAVE_SYS_RESOURCE_H)
+check_include_file(sys/socket.h HAVE_SYS_SOCKET_H)
+check_include_file(sys/stat.h HAVE_SYS_STAT_H)
+check_include_file(sys/un.h HAVE_SYS_UN_H)
+check_include_file(sys/poll.h HAVE_SYS_POLL_H)
+check_include_file(sys/select.h HAVE_SYS_SELECT_H)
+check_include_file(sched.h HAVE_SCHED_H)
+check_include_file(strings.h HAVE_STRINGS_H)
+
+check_function_exists(gethostbyname HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME)
+check_function_exists(gethostbyname_r HAVE_GETHOSTBYNAME_R)
+check_function_exists(strerror_r HAVE_STRERROR_R)
+check_function_exists(sched_get_priority_max HAVE_SCHED_GET_PRIORITY_MAX)
+check_function_exists(sched_get_priority_min HAVE_SCHED_GET_PRIORITY_MIN)
+
+include(CheckCSourceCompiles)
+include(CheckCXXSourceCompiles)
+
+check_cxx_source_compiles(
+  "
+  #include <string.h>
+  int main(){char b;char *a = strerror_r(0, &b, 0); return(0);}
+  "
+  STRERROR_R_CHAR_P)
+
+
+set(PACKAGE ${PACKAGE_NAME})
+set(PACKAGE_STRING "${PACKAGE_NAME} ${PACKAGE_VERSION}")
+set(VERSION ${thrift_VERSION})
+
+# generate a config.h file
+configure_file("${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/config.h.in" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/thrift/config.h")
+# HACK: Some files include thrift/config.h and some config.h so we include both. This should be cleaned up.
+include_directories("${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/thrift" "${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}")