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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"
+KEYWORDS="x86 ~alpha ~ppc ~sparc ~hppa ~amd64"
+
+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}${MY_PV}-2.1.5.20090105-crosscompile.patch
+	use java && epatch "${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
+	mkdir -p ${D}/usr/$(get_libdir) && \
+		mkdir -p ${D}/usr/include || die "mkdir failed in creation of destination directories"
+	emake install INSTALLPREFIX=${D} PREFIX=usr LIBDIR=$(get_libdir) || die "emake install failed"
+	use java && java-pkg_regso "${D}"/usr/$(get_libdir)/lib${PN}${MY_PV}.so || die "registering java .so file failed"
+}