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+# Generic Makefile.cvs for CMake-based projects:
+#
+# Create a subdirecory build/ and call cmake from there with /usr prefix.
+#
+# Intentionally using /usr rather than the default /usr/local since this is for
+# internal use, and we are the distribution makers: /usr/local is off limits
+# for us.
+#
+# Author: Stefan Hundhammer <sh@suse.de>
+
+BUILD_SUBDIR = build
+HERE_FROM_BUILD_SUBDIR = ..
+PREFIX = /usr
+CMAKE = /usr/bin/cmake
+
+all: cmake
+
+
+cmake: create-build-subdir create-toplevel-makefile
+ ( cd $(BUILD_SUBDIR) && $(CMAKE) -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$(PREFIX) $(HERE_FROM_BUILD_SUBDIR) )
+
+
+create-build-subdir:
+ test -d $(BUILD_SUBDIR) || mkdir $(BUILD_SUBDIR)
+
+
+create-toplevel-makefile:
+ echo 'all:' >Makefile
+ echo -e '\t$$(MAKE) $$(MAKEFLAGS) -C $(BUILD_SUBDIR)' >>Makefile
+