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+AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS = foreign dist-bzip2 1.6
+
+INCLUDES = $(all_includes) -I$(top_srcdir)/include
+SUBDIRS = include src tests
+
+pkgconfigdir = $(libdir)/pkgconfig
+pkgconfig_DATA = libosmocore.pc