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-#
-# 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) 2010 Cisco Systems, Inc.  All rights reserved.
-# $COPYRIGHT$
-# 
-# Additional copyrights may follow
-# 
-# $HEADER$
-#
-
-# Note that this file must exist, even though it is empty (there is no
-# "base" directory for the common framework).  autogen.pl and
-# ompi_mca.m4 assume that every framework has a top-level Makefile.am.
-# We *could* adjust the framework glue code to exclude "common" from
-# this requirement, but it's just a lot easier to have an empty
-# Makefile.am here.