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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.
+#
+
+SUBDIRS = 
+
+if WITH_CPP
+#SUBDIRS += cpp
+endif
+
+if WITH_JAVA
+SUBDIRS += java
+SUBDIRS += js
+endif
+
+if WITH_PERL
+#SUBDIRS += perl
+endif
+
+if WITH_PHP
+#SUBDIRS += php
+endif
+
+if WITH_PYTHON
+#SUBDIRS += py
+#SUBDIRS += py.twisted
+endif
+
+if WITH_RUBY
+#SUBDIRS += rb
+endif
+
+if WITH_HASKELL
+#SUBDIRS += hs
+endif
+
+#
+# generate html for ThriftTest.thrift
+#
+check-local:
+	$(top_builddir)/compiler/cpp/thrift --gen html -r $(top_srcdir)/tutorial/tutorial.thrift