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+#!/usr/bin/make -f
+# Sample debian/rules that uses debhelper.
+# GNU copyright 1997 to 1999 by Joey Hess.
+
+# Uncomment this to turn on verbose mode.
+#export DH_VERBOSE=1
+
+
+# This is the debhelper compatability version to use.
+export DH_COMPAT=4
+
+
+CFLAGS ?= -Wall -g
+
+ifneq (,$(findstring noopt,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
+	CFLAGS += -O0
+else
+	CFLAGS += -O2
+endif
+ifeq (,$(findstring nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
+	INSTALL_PROGRAM += -s
+endif
+ifneq (,$(findstring mmx,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
+	ENABLE_MMX = yes
+else
+	ENABLE_MMX = no
+endif
+
+# These are used for cross-compiling and for saving the configure script
+# from having to guess our platform (since we know it already)
+DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE   ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE)
+DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE  ?= $(shell dpkg-architecture -qDEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE)
+
+INSTALL=/usr/bin/install -p
+CONFIGUREOPTS = --prefix=/usr --build=$(DEB_BUILD_GNU_TYPE) --host=$(DEB_HOST_GNU_TYPE) \
+	--mandir=/usr/share/man \
+	--enable-xim \
+	--with-backspace=del \
+	--with-delete=execute \
+	--with-home=xterm \
+	--with-end=xterm \
+	--enable-share=yes \
+	--enable-static=no \
+	--enable-mmx=$(ENABLE_MMX) \
+	--enable-multi-charset=unicode \
+	--enable-escreen \
+	--without-sense-of-humor \
+	--with-pty-group=tty
+
+configure: configure-stamp
+configure-stamp:
+	dh_testdir
+
+	# we don't like rpath
+	perl -pi -e 's/^(Eterm|Esetroot)_LDFLAGS =.*$$//' \
+	   $$(find . -name Makefile.am -o -name Makefile.in)
+
+	test -x autogen.sh && ./autogen.sh $(CONFIGUREOPTS) || ./configure $(CONFIGUREOPTS)
+
+	touch configure-stamp
+
+build: configure build-stamp
+build-stamp:
+	dh_testdir
+
+	$(MAKE)
+
+	touch build-stamp
+
+clean:
+	dh_testdir
+	rm -f build-stamp configure-stamp
+
+	-$(MAKE) distclean
+
+	dh_clean
+
+install: build
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	dh_clean -k
+	dh_installdirs
+	
+	$(MAKE) install DESTDIR=$(CURDIR)/debian/tmp
+
+binary-indep: build install
+
+binary-arch: build install
+	dh_testdir
+	dh_testroot
+	dh_installdocs
+	dh_installmenu
+	dh_installman debian/eterm-utils.1
+	dh_installchangelogs
+	dh_movefiles
+	dh_link
+	dh_strip
+	dh_compress
+	dh_fixperms
+	dh_makeshlibs
+	dh_installdeb
+	dh_shlibdeps
+	dh_gencontrol
+	dh_md5sums
+	dh_builddeb
+
+binary: binary-indep binary-arch
+.PHONY: build clean binary-indep binary-arch binary install configure