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+#  File: Makefile.am
+#  Author: Sun Jiang Dong <sunjd@cn.ibm.com>
+#  Copyright (c) 2004 International Business Machines
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+# modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+# as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
+# of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+# 
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+# 
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307, USA.
+#
+MAINTAINERCLEANFILES = Makefile.in
+
+INCLUDES         = -I$(top_builddir)/include  -I$(top_srcdir)/include     \
+                   -I$(top_builddir)/libltdl  -I$(top_srcdir)/libltdl     \
+		   -I$(top_builddir)/linux-ha -I$(top_srcdir)/linux-ha    \
+		   -I$(top_builddir)          -I$(top_srcdir)
+
+halibdir	 =  $(libdir)/@HB_PKG@
+havarlibdir      =  $(localstatedir)/lib/@HB_PKG@
+
+COMMONLIBS	 =  $(top_builddir)/lib/clplumbing/libplumb.la   \
+		    $(top_builddir)/lib/hbclient/libhbclient.la  \
+		    $(GLIBLIB)
+
+lib_LTLIBRARIES = libstonithd.la
+libstonithd_la_SOURCES = stonithd_lib.c stonithd_msg.c
+libstonithd_la_LDFLAGS = $(COMMONLIBS) -luuid
+libstonithd_la_CFLAGS = $(INCLUDES) -DVAR_LIB_D='"$(havarlibdir)"'
+
+# need to make stonithd's owner as hacluster:haclient?
+install-exec-local:
+	$(mkinstalldirs) $(DESTDIR)$/$(havarlibdir)/fencing
+	-chgrp $(apigid) $(DESTDIR)/$(havarlibdir)/fencing
+	chmod 750 $(DESTDIR)/$(havarlibdir)/fencing
+