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+#
+#             LUFA Library
+#     Copyright (C) Dean Camera, 2009.
+#              
+#  dean [at] fourwalledcubicle [dot] com
+#      www.fourwalledcubicle.com
+#
+
+# Makefile to build the LUFA library and Demos.
+
+# Call with "make all" to rebuild everything, "make clean" to clean everything,
+# "make clean_list" to remove all intermediatary files but preserve any binaries
+# and "make doxygen" to document the project with DoxyGen (if installed).
+
+# It is suggested that for the master build, the --quiet switch is passed to make,
+# to remove all the commands from the output. This gives a much easier to read
+# report of the entire build process.
+
+%:
+	@echo Executing \"make $@\" on all LUFA library elements.
+	@echo
+	make -C LUFA/ $@
+	make -C Demos/ $@
+	make -C Projects/ $@
+	make -C Bootloaders/ $@
+	@echo
+	@echo LUFA \"make $@\" operation complete.