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+Description:
+A GNU-like <dirent.h>.
+
+Files:
+lib/dirent.in.h
+m4/dirent_h.m4
+m4/unistd_h.m4
+
+Depends-on:
+include_next
+
+configure.ac:
+gl_DIRENT_H
+
+Makefile.am:
+BUILT_SOURCES += $(DIRENT_H)
+
+# We need the following in order to create <dirent.h> when the system
+# doesn't have one that works with the given compiler.
+dirent.h: dirent.in.h
+	rm -f $@-t $@
+	{ echo '/* DO NOT EDIT! GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY! */'; \
+	  sed -e 's|@''INCLUDE_NEXT''@|$(INCLUDE_NEXT)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''PRAGMA_SYSTEM_HEADER''@|@PRAGMA_SYSTEM_HEADER@|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''NEXT_DIRENT_H''@|$(NEXT_DIRENT_H)|g' \
+	      -e 's|@''REPLACE_FCHDIR''@|$(REPLACE_FCHDIR)|g' \
+	      < $(srcdir)/dirent.in.h; \
+	} > $@-t
+	mv $@-t $@
+MOSTLYCLEANFILES += dirent.h dirent.h-t
+
+Include:
+#include <dirent.h>
+
+License:
+LGPLv2+
+
+Maintainer:
+all