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+# Copyright (C) 2007 MySQL AB, 2009 Sun Microsystems,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; version 2 of the License.
+# 
+# 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, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA  02110-1301  USA
+
+# Handy macro to parse macro arguments
+MACRO(MYSQL_PARSE_ARGUMENTS prefix arg_names option_names)
+  SET(DEFAULT_ARGS)
+  FOREACH(arg_name ${arg_names})    
+    SET(${prefix}_${arg_name})
+  ENDFOREACH(arg_name)
+  FOREACH(option ${option_names})
+    SET(${prefix}_${option} FALSE)
+  ENDFOREACH(option)
+
+  SET(current_arg_name DEFAULT_ARGS)
+  SET(current_arg_list)
+  FOREACH(arg ${ARGN})    
+    SET(larg_names ${arg_names})    
+    LIST(FIND larg_names "${arg}" is_arg_name)
+    IF (is_arg_name GREATER -1)
+      SET(${prefix}_${current_arg_name} ${current_arg_list})
+      SET(current_arg_name ${arg})
+      SET(current_arg_list)
+    ELSE (is_arg_name GREATER -1)
+      SET(loption_names ${option_names})    
+      LIST(FIND loption_names "${arg}" is_option)            
+      IF (is_option GREATER -1)
+      SET(${prefix}_${arg} TRUE)
+      ELSE (is_option GREATER -1)
+      SET(current_arg_list ${current_arg_list} ${arg})
+      ENDIF (is_option GREATER -1)
+    ENDIF (is_arg_name GREATER -1)
+  ENDFOREACH(arg)
+  SET(${prefix}_${current_arg_name} ${current_arg_list})
+ENDMACRO()