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-
-minimal:core_tools
-
-core_tools:
-	rosmake --rosdep-install --bootstrap --status-rate=0
-	@echo "You have built the minimal set of ROS tools."
-	@echo "If you want to make all ROS tools type 'rosmake ros'."
-	@echo "Or you can rosmake any other package in your ROS_PACKAGE_PATH."
-
-clean:
-	@if test -z `which rospack`; then echo "It appears that you have already done a 'make clean' because rospack is gone."; false; fi
-	rosmake -r --target=clean ros
-
-## include $(shell rospack find mk)/cmake_stack.mk
-### copied below since it can't be found before rospack is built 
-
-# set EXTRA_CMAKE_FLAGS in the including Makefile in order to add tweaks
-#CMAKE_FLAGS= -Wdev -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=`rospack find rosbuild`/rostoolchain.cmake $(EXTRA_CMAKE_FLAGS)
-CMAKE_FLAGS= -Wdev -DCMAKE_TOOLCHAIN_FILE=../core/rosbuild/rostoolchain.cmake $(EXTRA_CMAKE_FLAGS)
-
-# The all target does the heavy lifting, creating the build directory and
-# invoking CMake
-all_dist: minimal
-	@mkdir -p build
-	-mkdir -p bin
-	cd build && cmake $(CMAKE_FLAGS) ..
-
-# The clean target blows everything away
-# It also removes auto-generated message/service code directories, 
-# to handle the case where the original .msg/.srv file has been removed,
-# and thus CMake no longer knows about it.
-clean_dist:
-	-cd build && make clean
-	rm -rf build
-
-# Run the script that does the build, then do a fairly hacky cleanup, #1598
-package_source:
-	$(shell rospack find rosbuild)/bin/package_source.py $(CURDIR)
-
-