diff --git a/.lgtm.yml b/.lgtm.yml
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+extraction:
+  cpp:
+    index:
+      build_command: make static_lib
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 [![Windows Build status](https://ci.appveyor.com/api/projects/status/fbgfu0so3afcno78/branch/master?svg=true)](https://ci.appveyor.com/project/Facebook/rocksdb/branch/master)
 [![PPC64le Build Status](http://140.211.168.68:8080/buildStatus/icon?job=Rocksdb)](http://140.211.168.68:8080/job/Rocksdb)
 
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 RocksDB is developed and maintained by Facebook Database Engineering Team.
 It is built on earlier work on LevelDB by Sanjay Ghemawat (sanjay@google.com)
 and Jeff Dean (jeff@google.com)