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+#!/bin/sh
+
+AUTOCONF_FILES="Makefile.in aclocal.m4 ar-lib autom4te.cache compile \
+        config.guess config.h.in config.h.in~ config.sub configure depcomp \
+        install-sh ltmain.sh missing *libtool"
+
+case $1 in
+    clean)
+        test -f Makefile && make maintainer-clean
+        for file in ${AUTOCONF_FILES}; do
+            find -name "$file" | xargs -r rm -rf
+        done
+        exit 0
+        ;;
+esac
+
+autoreconf -if
+echo 'Run "./configure ${CONFIGURE_FLAGS} && make"'