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diff --git a/distribution/lib/DistUtils.py b/distribution/lib/DistUtils.py
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+import fileinput
+
+def commentOutLexYacc(target, makefile):
+    f = fileinput.input("$makefile", True)
+    inComment = False
+    inClean = False
+    for x in f:
+        if not x.startswith("\t") and x.find("$base") != -1 and x.find("$base" + ".o") == -1:
+            inComment = True 
+        elif x.startswith("clean::"):
+            inClean = True
+        elif len(x.strip()) == 0:
+            inClean = False
+            inComment = False
+        x = x.rstrip('\n')
+        if (inComment or (inClean and x.find("$base") != -1)) and not x.startswith('#'):
+                print '#',x
+        else:
+            print x
+    f.close()