diff --git a/src/std/rec/RULES b/src/std/rec/RULES
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-#*************************************************************************
-# Copyright (c) 2011 The University of Chicago, as Operator of Argonne
-#     National Laboratory.
-# Copyright (c) 2002 The Regents of the University of California, as
-#     Operator of Los Alamos National Laboratory.
-# EPICS BASE is distributed subject to a Software License Agreement found
-# in file LICENSE that is included with this distribution. 
-#*************************************************************************
-
-# This is a Makefile fragment, see src/std/Makefile.
-
-$(COMMON_DIR)/stdRecords.dbd:
-	$(RM) $@
-	$(PERL) $(TOOLS)/makeIncludeDbd.pl $(stdRecords_DBD) $@
-