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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
+
+gen-py/tutorial/Calculator.py gen-py/shared/SharedService.py: $(top_srcdir)/tutorial/tutorial.thrift
+	$(THRIFT) --gen py -r $<
+
+all-local: gen-py/tutorial/Calculator.py
+
+tutorialserver: all
+	${PYTHON} PythonServer.py
+
+tutorialclient: all
+	${PYTHON} PythonClient.py
+
+EXTRA_DIST = \
+	PythonServer.py \
+	PythonClient.py