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+/*
+ * Asterisk -- An open source telephony toolkit.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2007, Digium, Inc.
+ *
+ * See http://www.asterisk.org for more information about
+ * the Asterisk project. Please do not directly contact
+ * any of the maintainers of this project for assistance;
+ * the project provides a web site, mailing lists and IRC
+ * channels for your use.
+ *
+ * This program is free software, distributed under the terms of
+ * the GNU General Public License Version 2. See the LICENSE file
+ * at the top of the source tree.
+ *
+ * Sometimes one really wonders why we need a copyright
+ * for less than ten lines of preprocessor directives...
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Stub to find the zaptel headers. The configure script will
+ * define HAVE_ZAPTEL_VERSION according to what it has found.
+ * Applications should include "zapata.h" and not (directly)
+ * <foo/zaptel.h> or <foo/tonezone.h>.
+ * For the mapping of version numbers to location see below.
+ *
+ */
+#ifndef _AST_ZAPATA_H
+#define	_AST_ZAPATA_H
+
+#ifdef HAVE_ZAPTEL
+#include <sys/ioctl.h>
+
+#if defined(HAVE_ZAPTEL_VERSION) && HAVE_ZAPTEL_VERSION < 100
+/* Very old versions of zaptel drivers on FreeBSD install in ${PREFIX} */
+#include <zaptel.h>
+#include <tonezone.h>
+#else
+/* newer versions install in ${PREFIX}/zaptel */
+#include <zaptel/zaptel.h>
+#endif	/* HAVE_ZAPTEL_VERSION < 100 */
+
+#endif	/* HAVE_ZAPTEL */
+
+#endif	/* _AST_ZAPATA_H */