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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33  | #!/bin/sh
# Usage : create_makefiles dir
# (to be run from toplevel directory)
# Will re-create all Makefiles in dir and its subdirs
# Needs create_makefile in the path.
#
# David Faure <faure@kde.org>
if test ! -f Makefile && test -n "$OBJ_REPLACEMENT"; then
   objdir=`pwd | sed -e "$OBJ_REPLACEMENT"`
   cd $objdir
fi
 
if test ! -f Makefile && test -n "$OBJ_SUBDIR"; then
   cd $OBJ_SUBDIR
fi
if test ! -f Makefile; then
   echo "$0: in the current directory there is no Makefile"
   echo "you will have to run it from the top build dir."
   echo "if you do not have a Makefile there - rerun configure"
   exit
fi
srcdir=`egrep '^srcdir *=' Makefile | sed -e "s#srcdir *= *##"`
 
( cd $srcdir ; find $1 -type d | sed -e 's,/$,,' ) | \
  while read a; do 
      if test -f "$srcdir/$a/Makefile.am"; then
      	 test -d "$a" || mkdir -p "$a"
         create_makefile "$a/Makefile"
      fi
  done
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