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+#!/bin/sh
+
+# 	Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+#
+# 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 2, 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 software; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
+# the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330,
+# Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+
+# Usage: guile-tools --version
+#        guile-tools --help
+#        guile-tools [OPTION] PROGRAM [ARGS]
+#
+# PROGRAM is run w/ ARGS.  To see a list of available programs, use
+# "guile-tools --help" to find the default scripts directory and then
+# do a "ls" on that directory.  Or just read the source 14 lines below.
+#
+# Options (only one of which may be used at a time):
+# --scriptsdir DIR      -- Look in DIR for scripts
+# --guileversion VERS   -- Look in $pkgdatadir/VERS/scripts for scripts
+#
+# TODO
+# - handle pre-install invocation
+# - "full" option processing (but see comment below)
+#
+# Author: Thien-Thi Nguyen
+
+prefix="@prefix@"
+pkgdatadir="@datadir@/@PACKAGE@"
+guileversion="@GUILE_VERSION@"
+default_scriptsdir=$pkgdatadir/$guileversion/scripts
+
+# pre-install invocation frob
+mydir=`dirname $0`
+if [ -d "$mydir/scripts" -a -f "$mydir/scripts/Makefile.am" ] ; then
+    default_scriptsdir=`(cd $mydir/scripts ; pwd)`
+fi
+
+help ()
+{
+    echo "$0 [--scriptsdir DIR | --guileversion VERSION] PROGRAM [ARGS]"
+    echo default scriptsdir: $default_scriptsdir
+}
+
+# option processing -- basically, you can override either the script dir
+# completely, or just the guile version.  we choose implementation simplicity
+# over orthogonality.
+
+if [ x"$1" = x--version ] ; then
+    echo $0 $guileversion
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+if [ x"$1" = x--help -o x"$1" = x ] ; then
+    help
+    exit 0
+fi
+
+if [ x"$1" = x--scriptsdir ] ; then
+    user_scriptsdir=$2
+    shift
+    shift
+elif [ x"$1" = x--guileversion ] ; then
+    user_scriptsdir=$pkgdatadir/$2/scripts
+    shift
+    shift
+fi
+
+scriptsdir=${user_scriptsdir-$default_scriptsdir}
+
+if [ ! -d $scriptsdir ] ; then
+    echo $0: no such directory: $scriptsdir
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ x"$1" = x ] ; then
+    help
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+program=$scriptsdir/$1
+shift
+
+if [ -x $program ] ; then
+    exec $program "$@"
+else
+    echo $0: no such program: $program
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+# guile-tools ends here