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+# Test that SSL sample programs can interoperate with OpenSSL and GnuTLS.
+
+# Copyright The Mbed TLS Contributors
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0 OR GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+: ${PROGRAMS_DIR:=../programs/ssl}