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+# Copyright 1999-2007 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.ebuild,v 1.3 2007/08/22 18:39:37 ticho Exp $
+
+DESCRIPTION="Tools to convert docbook to man and info"
+SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/docbook2x/${P}.tar.gz"
+HOMEPAGE="http://docbook2x.sourceforge.net/"
+
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~hppa ~ppc ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE=""
+LICENSE="MIT"
+
+DEPEND=""
+
+RDEPEND=">=dev-perl/XML-Writer-0.4
+	>=dev-perl/XML-XSLT-0.31
+	>=dev-perl/SGMLSpm-1.03
+	dev-perl/XML-SAX
+	dev-libs/libxslt"
+
+src_compile() {
+	econf \
+		--with-xslt-processor=libxslt \
+		--program-suffix=.pl \
+		|| die "econf failed"
+
+	emake || die "emake failed"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	make "DESTDIR=${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."
+}