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+# Copyright 1999-2009 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/app-text/recode/recode-3.6_p15-r1.ebuild,v 1.9 2009/08/31 19:29:14 ranger Exp $
+
+inherit autotools eutils libtool toolchain-funcs
+
+MY_P=${P%_*}
+MY_PV=${PV%_*}
+DEB_PATCH=${PV#*p}
+
+DESCRIPTION="Convert files between various character sets"
+HOMEPAGE="http://recode.progiciels-bpi.ca/"
+SRC_URI="mirror://gnu/${PN}/${MY_P}.tar.gz
+	mirror://debian/pool/main/r/${PN}/${PN}_${MY_PV}-${DEB_PATCH}.diff.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 s390 sh sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd"
+IUSE="nls"
+
+DEPEND="nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )"
+
+S=${WORKDIR}/${MY_P}
+
+src_unpack() {
+	unpack ${A}
+	cd "${S}"
+
+	# patch for bug #239372 by Dmitry Karasik
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}/${MY_P}-gettextfix.diff"
+
+	epatch "${WORKDIR}"/${PN}_${MY_PV}-${DEB_PATCH}.diff
+	sed -i '1i#include <stdlib.h>' src/argmatch.c || die
+
+	# Needed under FreeBSD, too
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${MY_P}-ppc-macos.diff
+	cp lib/error.c lib/xstrdup.c src/ || die "file copy failed"
+
+	# Remove old libtool macros
+	rm "${S}"/acinclude.m4
+
+	eautoreconf
+	elibtoolize
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	tc-export CC LD
+	# --without-included-gettext means we always use system headers
+	# and library
+	econf --without-included-gettext $(use_enable nls)
+	emake || die "emake failed"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "make install failed"
+	dodoc AUTHORS BACKLOG ChangeLog NEWS README THANKS TODO
+	rm -f "${D}"/usr/lib/charset.alias
+}