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+**/*.la
+**/*.lo
+**/*.o
+**/*.Plo
+**/*.Po
+**/.deps
+**/.dirstamp
+src/config.h
+src/stamp-h1
+src/ctemplate/find_ptr.h
+src/ctemplate/per_expand_data.h
+src/ctemplate/str_ref.h
+src/ctemplate/template.h
+src/ctemplate/template_annotator.h
+src/ctemplate/template_cache.h
+src/ctemplate/template_dictionary.h
+src/ctemplate/template_dictionary_interface.h
+src/ctemplate/template_emitter.h
+src/ctemplate/template_enums.h
+src/ctemplate/template_modifiers.h
+src/ctemplate/template_namelist.h
+src/ctemplate/template_pathops.h
+src/ctemplate/template_string.h
+src/htmlparser/fsm_config.pyc
+src/htmlparser/htmlparser_fsm.h
+**/.libs
+template_*test
+*_test
+**/lib*.pc
+config.log
+config.status
+diff_tpl_auto_escape
+libtool
+make_tpl_varnames_h
+Makefile
+statemachine.c
+src/htmlparser/jsparser_fsm.h
+src/tests/statemachine_test_fsm.h