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-# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Header: $
-
-inherit versionator eutils java-pkg-opt-2
-
-DESCRIPTION="Phidget USB hardware interface library"
-MY_PV="$(get_major_version)$(get_version_component_range 2)"
-LONGNAME="Phidgetlinux"
-SRC_URI="http://www.phidgets.com/downloads/libraries/${LONGNAME}_${PV}.tar.gz"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.phidgets.com"
-
-SLOT="0"
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-3"
-KEYWORDS="x86 ~alpha ~ppc ~sparc ~hppa ~amd64"
-
-IUSE="java"
-
-RDEPEND="java? ( >=virtual/jre-1.4 )"
-DEPEND="java? ( >=virtual/jdk-1.4 )"
-
-S=${WORKDIR}/${LONGNAME}/${PN}${MY_PV}
-
-src_unpack() {
-	unpack ${LONGNAME}_${PV}.tar.gz
-	cd "${S}"
-
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}${MY_PV}-libdir.patch
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}${MY_PV}-crosscompile.patch
-	use java && epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}${MY_PV}-java.patch
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	echo cd "${S}"
-	cd "${S}"
-	if use java; then
-		emake CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}- JAVA=y JAVAFLAGS="$(java-pkg_get-jni-cflags)" jni || die "emake failed"
-	else
-		emake CROSS_COMPILE=${CHOST}- JAVA=n || die "emake failed"
-	fi
-}
-
-src_install() {
-
-	#it seems that phidget's install stuff wants these dirs to exist
-	dodir /usr/$(get_libdir) && \
-		dodir /usr/include || die "mkdir failed in creation of destination directories"
-	emake install INSTALLPREFIX="${D}" PREFIX=usr LIBDIR=$(get_libdir) || die "emake install failed"
-	if use java; then
-		java-pkg_regso "${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/lib${PN}${MY_PV}.so || die "registering java .so file failed"
-	fi
-}