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+# -*- shell-script -*-
+#
+# Copyright (c) 2004-2005 The Trustees of Indiana University and Indiana
+#                         University Research and Technology
+#                         Corporation.  All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2004-2005 The University of Tennessee and The University
+#                         of Tennessee Research Foundation.  All rights
+#                         reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2004-2005 High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, 
+#                         University of Stuttgart.  All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2004-2005 The Regents of the University of California.
+#                         All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2011-2015 Los Alamos National Security, LLC.
+#                         All rights reserved.
+# Copyright (c) 2010      Cisco Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
+# $COPYRIGHT$
+# 
+# Additional copyrights may follow
+# 
+# $HEADER$
+#
+
+# MCA_oob_alps_CONFIG([action-if-found], [action-if-not-found])
+# -----------------------------------------------------------
+AC_DEFUN([MCA_orte_oob_alps_CONFIG],[
+    AC_CONFIG_FILES([orte/mca/oob/alps/Makefile])
+
+    ORTE_CHECK_ALPS([oob_alps], [oob_alps_happy="yes"], [oob_alps_happy="no"])
+
+    AS_IF([test "$oob_alps_happy" = "yes"], 
+          [$1
+           AC_SUBST([oob_alps_CPPFLAGS])
+           AC_SUBST([oob_alps_LDFLAGS])
+           AC_SUBST([oob_alps_LIBS])], 
+          [$2])
+])dnl
+