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-# Copyright (c) 2007 INRIA Sophia-Antipolis (France).
-# All rights reserved.
-#
-# This file is part of CGAL (www.cgal.org); you can redistribute it and/or
-# modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
-# published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2.1 of the License.
-# See the file LICENSE.LGPL distributed with CGAL.
-#
-# Licensees holding a valid commercial license may use this file in
-# accordance with the commercial license agreement provided with the software.
-#
-# This file is provided AS IS with NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, INCLUDING THE
-# WARRANTY OF DESIGN, MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
-#
-# $URL$
-# $Id$
-#
-# Author(s)     : Laurent Rineau
-
-#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
-#                    object files
-#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
-
-# We now compile all source files at once since it is faster
-# When adding a new file, please update app_files.cpp
-OBJECTS = all_files$(OBJ_EXT)
-
-# Below variable is not used now (but may come back so let's keep it)
-OBJECTS_OLD = \
-CoreAux$(OBJ_EXT) \
-extLong$(OBJ_EXT) \
-CoreDefs$(OBJ_EXT) \
-CoreIO$(OBJ_EXT) \
-BigFloat$(OBJ_EXT) \
-Real$(OBJ_EXT) \
-Expr$(OBJ_EXT) \
-GmpIO$(OBJ_EXT)
-
-#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
-#                    libCore settings
-#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
-
-SOVERSION=2.0.0
-SOMAJOR=2
-
-LIB_NAME_BASE = CGALcore++
-
-ADDITIONAL_CXXFLAGS = $(ALL_GMP_CXXFLAGS) $(ALL_MPFR_CXXFLAGS)
-SHARED_LIB_ADDITIONAL_LDFLAGS = \
-            $(GMP_LIBPATHFLAGS) $(GMP_LDFLAGS) \
-            $(MPFR_LIBPATHFLAGS) $(MPFR_LDFLAGS)
-
-# The shared_lib case is still buggy:
-# - When GMP or MPFR is a static library on Darwin, it fails because -fno-common is required...
-
-#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
-#                    common rules for all libraries
-#---------------------------------------------------------------------#
-include ../CGAL/common.mk