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+# Copyright 2015 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
+# Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
+# found in the LICENSE file.
+
+# This variable should point to the Dart SDK.
+dart_sdk_root = "//third_party/dart-sdk/dart-sdk"