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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-15"?>
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<!-- $Id$ -->
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook V4.5//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY firstname "Pierre">
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<!ENTITY surname "Pronchery">
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<!ENTITY username "khorben">
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<!ENTITY email "khorben@defora.org">
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<!ENTITY section "5">
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<!ENTITY title "configure Developer Manual">
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<!ENTITY package "configure">
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<!ENTITY name "project.conf">
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<!ENTITY purpose "Project definition files for configure">
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]>
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<refentry>
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<refentryinfo>
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<title>&title;</title>
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<productname>&package;</productname>
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<authorgroup>
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<author>
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<firstname>&firstname;</firstname>
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<surname>&surname;</surname>
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<contrib>Code and documentation.</contrib>
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<address>
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<email>&email;</email>
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</address>
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</author>
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</authorgroup>
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<copyright>
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<year>2012</year>
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<holder>&firstname; &surname; <&email;></holder>
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</copyright>
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<legalnotice>
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<para>This manual page was written for the DeforaOS project (and may be
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used by others).</para>
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<para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document
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under the terms of the GNU General Public License, Version 3 as published by
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the Free Software Foundation.</para>
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</legalnotice>
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</refentryinfo>
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<refmeta>
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<refentrytitle>&name;</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>§ion;</manvolnum>
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</refmeta>
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<refnamediv>
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<refname>&name;</refname>
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<refpurpose>&purpose;</refpurpose>
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</refnamediv>
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<refsect1 id="description">
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<title>Project configuration</title>
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<para>
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A project definition file should be found in every project directory managed
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by &package;. These files must be named <filename>&name;</filename>.
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</para>
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<refsect2>
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<title>File format</title>
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<para>
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A definition file is organized in sections, each containing a number of
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variables. Section names are written on their own line, between brackets (eg
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"[section]"). Variables are given on their own line too, like this:
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<blockquote>
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<computeroutput>
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variable=value
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</computeroutput>
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</blockquote>
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Configuration files may be commented, comment lines being prepended with a
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hash sign "#".
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</para>
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<para>
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Variables can be defined directly without specifying a particular section
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first; they belong then to the default section, which is simply considered
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to have an empty name.
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</para>
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</refsect2>
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<refsect2>
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<title>Important variables</title>
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<para>
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The most significant variables recognized are mentioned below.
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</para>
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<para>
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In the default section:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>subdirs: subdirectories to look for too</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>cppflags_force: CPPFLAGS to force
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globally</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>cppflags: optional global CPPFLAGS</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>cflags_force: CFLAGS to force globally</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>cflags: optional global CFLAGS</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>ldflags_force: LDFLAGS to force globally</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>ldflags: optional global LDFLAGS</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>targets: targets to handle in the
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Makefile</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>dist: additional files to include in a source
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archive</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<para>In subsequent sections, respectively named after the target
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they define:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>type (mandatory): type of the target (eg "binary",
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"library", "object", ...)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>cppflags: additional CPPFLAGS for this
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target</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>cflags: additional CFLAGS for this
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target</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>ldflags: additional LDFLAGS for this
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target</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>sources: source files to compile</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>depends: a list of files (or other targets) that this
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target depends on</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>install: the destination path for
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installation</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</refsect2>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1 id="targets">
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<title>Target definitions</title>
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<refsect2>
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<title>Target types</title>
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<para>
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The following target types are currently supported:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>"binary": produces binary files, linked from every object
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file produced with their source files.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>"library": produces a static and a shared version of the
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target, linked from every object file produced with their source files,
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and respectively appending ".a" and ".so" extensions to the target name;
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the shared object are also assigned a version number.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>"object": produces a binary object file from the given
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source.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>"plugin": produces a shared version of the target, linked
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from every object file produced with their source files, and appending
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the ".so" extension to the target name.</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para>"script": runs the given script, expecting the target
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file to be generated from the sources defined.</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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</refsect2>
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<refsect2 id="targets_scripts">
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<title>Script targets</title>
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<para>
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Scripts have to be provided by the software project itself, as
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configure does not provide any pre-installed set of standard
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scripts. A few sample scripts are, however, distributed along with
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the source code of the configure project, and introduced here.
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</para>
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<para>
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These scripts are primarily meant to allow further integration of
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the build process, as defined by the Makefiles generated, with the
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requirements of a software project beyond that of compiling code.
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configure is already known to have been successfully integrated this
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way with:
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<itemizedlist>
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<listitem><para>AppBroker: integration with the DeforaOS distributed
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computing framework (see appbroker.sh)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.docbook.org/">DocBook</ulink>:
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markup language for technical documentation, based on either SGML or XML
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(see docbook.sh)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink
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url="http://www.gnu.org/software/gettext/">Gettext</ulink>:
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internationalization (i18n) and localization (l10n) framework, notably
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allowing software to be easily translated to other languages (see
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gettext.sh)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink url="http://www.gtk.org/gtk-doc/">Gtk-doc</ulink>:
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generates API documentation from comments within software projects, in
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the format expected by the <ulink
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url="http://live.gnome.org/devhelp">DevHelp API browser</ulink> (see
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gtkdoc.sh)</para></listitem>
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<listitem><para><ulink
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url="http://pkgconfig.freedesktop.org/">pkg-config</ulink>: unified
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interface to define compilation and linking rules to installed software
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(see pkgconfig.sh)</para></listitem>
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</itemizedlist>
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</para>
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<refsect3>
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<title>Writing scripts</title>
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<para>
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It is naturally possible to write scripts for integration with configure.
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</para>
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</refsect3>
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</refsect2>
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</refsect1>
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<refsect1 id="see_also">
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<title>See also</title>
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<para>
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<citerefentry>
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<refentrytitle>configure</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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</citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry>
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<refentrytitle>make</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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</citerefentry>
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</para>
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</refsect1>
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</refentry>
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