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-This is a set of helper Makefiles for doing non-recursive builds with
-GNU Make.  The canonical source can be found at
-https://github.com/edolstra/make-rules.  You should copy the files
-into the `mk` subdirectory of your project.
-
-TODO: write more documentation.