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+# Copyright © 2013 Intel Corporation
+#
+# Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
+# copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"),
+# to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation
+# the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense,
+# and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the
+# Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:
+#
+# The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the next
+# paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the
+# Software.
+#
+# THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+# IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+# FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL
+# THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER
+# LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING
+# FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS
+# IN THE SOFTWARE.
+
+# Initialize Autoconf
+AC_PREREQ([2.60])
+AC_INIT([libepoxy],
+        [1.0],
+        [https://people.freedesktop.org/~anholt/libepoxy],
+        [libepoxy])
+AC_CONFIG_SRCDIR([Makefile.am])
+AC_CONFIG_HEADERS([config.h])
+
+# Initialize Automake
+AM_INIT_AUTOMAKE([foreign dist-bzip2 subdir-objects])
+
+# Require X.Org macros 1.8 or later for MAN_SUBSTS set by XORG_MANPAGE_SECTIONS
+m4_ifndef([XORG_MACROS_VERSION],
+          [m4_fatal([must install xorg-macros 1.8 or later before running autoconf/autogen.
+  Hint: either install from source, git://anongit.freedesktop.org/xorg/util/macros or,
+  depending on you distribution, try package 'xutils-dev' or 'xorg-x11-util-macros'])])
+
+XORG_MACROS_VERSION(1.8)
+XORG_DEFAULT_OPTIONS
+
+AC_CHECK_PROGS([PYTHON], [python3 python2 python])
+
+# Initialize libtool
+AC_DISABLE_STATIC
+AC_PROG_LIBTOOL
+AC_SYS_LARGEFILE
+
+if test "x$GCC" = xyes; then
+    save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS"
+    AC_MSG_CHECKING([whether $CC supports -fvisibility=hidden])
+    VISIBILITY_CFLAGS="-fvisibility=hidden"
+    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS $VISIBILITY_CFLAGS"
+    AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_PROGRAM()], AC_MSG_RESULT([yes]),
+		   [VISIBILITY_CFLAGS=""; AC_MSG_RESULT([no])]);
+
+    # Restore CFLAGS; VISIBILITY_CFLAGS are added to it where needed.
+    CFLAGS=$save_CFLAGS
+fi
+
+AC_SUBST([VISIBILITY_CFLAGS])
+
+PKG_CHECK_MODULES(X11, [x11], [x11=yes], [x11=no])
+AM_CONDITIONAL(HAVE_X11, test x$x11 = xyes)
+
+
+AC_CONFIG_FILES([
+                epoxy.pc
+                Makefile
+                src/Makefile
+])
+AC_OUTPUT
+
+echo "        PYTHON:         $PYTHON"