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+# Copyright (c) 2021-2022 Arm Limited.
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+
+[build-system]
+requires = [
+    "setuptools>=42",
+    "wheel",
+    "setuptools_scm[toml]>=6.0"
+]
+build-backend = "setuptools.build_meta"
+
+[tool.setuptools_scm]