diff --git a/ompi/contrib/vt/autogen.subdirs b/ompi/contrib/vt/autogen.subdirs
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b581fd67a9
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+++ b/ompi/contrib/vt/autogen.subdirs
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+vt
+vt/extlib/otf