diff --git a/tools/make-keyboard-text/etc/Android.mk b/tools/make-keyboard-text/etc/Android.mk
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+++ b/tools/make-keyboard-text/etc/Android.mk
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+# Copyright (C) 2012 The Android Open Source Project
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#      http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+LOCAL_PATH := $(call my-dir)
+include $(CLEAR_VARS)
+
+LOCAL_PREBUILT_EXECUTABLES := make-keyboard-text
+
+include $(BUILD_HOST_PREBUILT)
diff --git a/tools/make-keyboard-text/etc/make-keyboard-text b/tools/make-keyboard-text/etc/make-keyboard-text
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+++ b/tools/make-keyboard-text/etc/make-keyboard-text
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+#!/bin/sh
+# Copyright 2012, The Android Open Source Project
+#
+# Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
+# you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
+# You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#     http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+# distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+# WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+# See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+# limitations under the License.
+
+# Set up prog to be the path of this script, including following symlinks,
+# and set up progdir to be the fully-qualified pathname of its directory.
+prog="$0"
+while [ -h "${prog}" ]; do
+    newProg=`/bin/ls -ld "${prog}"`
+    newProg=`expr "${newProg}" : ".* -> \(.*\)$"`
+    if expr "x${newProg}" : 'x/' >/dev/null; then
+        prog="${newProg}"
+    else
+        progdir=`dirname "${prog}"`
+        prog="${progdir}/${newProg}"
+    fi
+done
+oldwd=`pwd`
+progdir=`dirname "${prog}"`
+cd "${progdir}"
+progdir=`pwd`
+prog="${progdir}"/`basename "${prog}"`
+cd "${oldwd}"
+
+jarfile=make-keyboard-text.jar
+frameworkdir="$progdir"
+if [ ! -r "$frameworkdir/$jarfile" ]
+then
+    frameworkdir=`dirname "$progdir"`/tools/lib
+    libdir=`dirname "$progdir"`/tools/lib
+fi
+if [ ! -r "$frameworkdir/$jarfile" ]
+then
+    frameworkdir=`dirname "$progdir"`/framework
+    libdir=`dirname "$progdir"`/lib
+fi
+if [ ! -r "$frameworkdir/$jarfile" ]
+then
+    echo `basename "$prog"`": can't find $jarfile"
+    exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ "$OSTYPE" = "cygwin" ] ; then
+    jarpath=`cygpath -w  "$frameworkdir/$jarfile"`
+    progdir=`cygpath -w  "$progdir"`
+else
+    jarpath="$frameworkdir/$jarfile"
+fi
+
+# need to use "java.ext.dirs" because "-jar" causes classpath to be ignored
+# might need more memory, e.g. -Xmx128M
+exec java -ea -jar "$jarpath" "$@"
diff --git a/tools/make-keyboard-text/etc/manifest.txt b/tools/make-keyboard-text/etc/manifest.txt
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+++ b/tools/make-keyboard-text/etc/manifest.txt
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+Main-Class: com.android.inputmethod.keyboard.tools.MakeKeyboardText