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+# Copyright 1999-2010 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-text/docbook2X/docbook2X-0.8.8-r2.ebuild,v 1.15 2010/07/18 16:46:46 armin76 Exp $
+
+# bug 318297
+WANT_AUTOMAKE="1.10"
+
+inherit autotools eutils
+
+DESCRIPTION="Tools to convert docbook to man and info"
+SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/docbook2x/${P}.tar.gz"
+HOMEPAGE="http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/"
+
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd"
+IUSE="test"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+
+# dev-perl/XML-LibXML - although not mentioned upstream is required
+# for make check to complete.
+DEPEND="dev-lang/perl
+	dev-libs/libxslt
+	dev-perl/XML-NamespaceSupport
+	dev-perl/XML-SAX
+	dev-perl/XML-LibXML
+	app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets
+	=app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.2*"
+
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	unpack ${A}
+	cd "${S}"
+
+	# Patches from debian, for description see patches itself.
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-filename_whitespace_handling.patch
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-preprocessor_declaration_syntax.patch
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-error_on_missing_refentry.patch
+
+	eautoreconf #290284
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	econf \
+		--with-xslt-processor=libxslt \
+		--program-transform-name='s,\(docbook2.*\),\1.pl,' \
+		|| die "econf failed"
+
+	emake || die "emake failed"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	make DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "install failed"
+	dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README THANKS TODO
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	elog "To avoid conflict with docbook-sgml-utils, which is much more widely used,"
+	elog "all executables have been renamed to *.pl."
+}