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+INCLUDE = -I/usr/include/
+LIBDIR  = -L/usr/X11R6/lib 
+
+COMPILERFLAGS = -Wall
+CC = gcc
+CFLAGS = $(COMPILERFLAGS) $(INCLUDE)
+LIBRARIES = -lX11 -lXi -lXmu -lglut -lGL -lGLU -lm 
+
+# for all, set the targets to be every lesson1.c-lesson13.c 
+# file, removing the .c extension.  That is, at this point,
+# it would produce lesson1, lesson2, lesson3,...,lesson13 targets.
+#
+all: $(basename $(wildcard lesson[1-9].c lesson1[0-3].c))
+
+# same as for all, except set the targets to be 
+# lessonX.tar.gz from lessonX.c.  This is really
+# only used to build smaller tutorial .tar.gz files
+# to send to nehe.
+#
+dist: $(foreach file,$(basename $(wildcard lesson[1-9].c lesson1[0-3].c)),$(file).tar.gz)
+
+# to produce, say, lesson1.tar.gz:
+#
+# 1. remove lesson1.tar.gz
+# 2. build lesson1.tar containing README, makefile, lesson1.c, Data/lesson1/*.
+# 3. gzip lesson1.tar.
+#
+lesson%.tar.gz : 
+	tar cvf $(subst .tar.gz,.tar,$@) README makefile $(subst .tar.gz,.c,$@) $(wildcard Data/$(subst .tar.gz,,$@)/*); \
+	gzip $(subst .tar.gz,.tar,$@);
+
+# to produce, say, lesson1:
+#
+# 1. compile the thing.  uses the variables defined above.
+# 
+lesson% : lesson%.o
+	$(CC) $(CFLAGS) -o $@ $(LIBDIR) $< $(LIBRARIES)  
+
+# to clean up:
+# delete all of the lessonX files.
+clean:
+	rm $(wildcard lesson[1-9] lesson1[0-3])
+
+# to clean up the distributions:
+# delete all of the lessonX.tar.gz files.
+distclean:
+	rm $(wildcard lesson[1-9].tar.gz lesson1[0-3].tar.gz)
+