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+DIRS = 3sat bucketsort friendly haar knapsack
+
+.PHONY: $(DIRS) clean
+
+$(DIRS):
+	$(MAKE) -C $@
+
+all: $(DIRS)
+
+clean:
+	-for d in $(DIRS); do (cd $$d; $(MAKE) clean ); done
+