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-#!/bin/sh
-#
-# Conky, a system monitor, based on torsmo
-#
-# Any original torsmo code is licensed under the BSD license
-#
-# All code written since the fork of torsmo is licensed under the GPL
-#
-# Please see COPYING for details
-#
-# Copyright (c) 2004, Hannu Saransaari and Lauri Hakkarainen
-# Copyright (c) 2005-2012 Brenden Matthews, Philip Kovacs, et. al. (see AUTHORS)
-# All rights reserved.
-#
-# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
-# (at your option) any later version.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
-# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
-# GNU General Public License for more details.
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
-# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
-#
-# optional $1 = optional directory containing build tree or git working copy
-
-# Something exceptionally irritating to get people to move away from autotools.
-echo
-echo "\033[41m\033[34m The Conky autotools build system is now deprecated in favour of CMake.  Please see README.cmake for usage instructions."
-echo