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+## ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+##
+## Copyright (C) 2020 by the deal.II authors
+##
+## This file is part of the deal.II library.
+##
+## The deal.II library is free software; you can use it, redistribute
+## it, and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General
+## Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
+## version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
+## The full text of the license can be found in the file LICENSE.md at
+## the top level directory of deal.II.
+##
+## ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+#
+# This macro is used for the feature configuration in deal.II. It clears
+# all individual FEATURE_* configuration variables for a given feature.
+#
+# Usage:
+# CLEAR_FEATURE(feature)
+#
+# and all other suffixes defined in DEAL_II_LIST_SUFFIXES and
+# DEAL_II_STRING_SUFFIXES to the corresponding DEAL_II_* variables
+#
+
+MACRO(CLEAR_FEATURE _feature)
+ FOREACH(_var ${DEAL_II_LIST_SUFFIXES})
+ unset(${_feature}_${_var})
+ ENDFOREACH()
+ FOREACH(_var ${DEAL_II_STRING_SUFFIXES})
+ unset(${_feature}_${_var})
+ ENDFOREACH()
+ENDMACRO()