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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/dev-libs/DirectFB/DirectFB-1.4.2.ebuild,v 1.9 2010/01/06 19:07:57 vapier Exp $
+
+inherit eutils toolchain-funcs
+
+# Map Gentoo IUSE expand vars to DirectFB drivers
+# echo `sed -n '/Possible gfxdrivers are:/,/^$/{/Possible/d;s:\[ *::;s:\].*::;s:,::g;p}' configure.in`
+I_TO_D_intel="i810,i830"
+I_TO_D_mga="matrox"
+I_TO_D_r128="ati128"
+I_TO_D_s3="unichrome"
+I_TO_D_sis="sis315"
+I_TO_D_via="cle266"
+# cyber5k davinci ep9x gl omap pxa3xx sh772x
+IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS=" intel mach64 mga neomagic nsc nvidia r128 radeon s3 savage sis tdfx via vmware"
+IUV=${IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS// / video_cards_}
+# echo `sed -n '/Possible inputdrivers are:/,/^$/{/\(Possible\|^input\)/d;s:\[ *::;s:\].*::;s:,::g;p}' configure.in`
+I_TO_D_elo2300="elo-input"
+I_TO_D_evdev="linuxinput"
+I_TO_D_mouse="ps2mouse serialmouse"
+# dbox2remote dreamboxremote gunze h3600_ts penmount sonypijogdial ucb1x00 wm97xx zytronic
+IUSE_INPUT_DEVICES=" dynapro elo2300 evdev joystick keyboard lirc mouse mutouch tslib"
+IUD=${IUSE_INPUT_DEVICES// / input_devices_}
+
+DESCRIPTION="Thin library on top of the Linux framebuffer devices"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.directfb.org/"
+SRC_URI="http://directfb.org/downloads/Core/${PN}-${PV:0:3}/${P}.tar.gz
+	http://directfb.org/downloads/Old/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm ~hppa ~ia64 -mips ppc ppc64 sh -sparc x86"
+IUSE="debug fbcon fusion gif jpeg mmx png sdl sse sysfs truetype v4l v4l2 X zlib ${IUV} ${IUD}"
+
+#	fusion? ( >=dev-libs/linux-fusion-8.0.0 )
+RDEPEND="sdl? ( media-libs/libsdl )
+	gif? ( media-libs/giflib )
+	png? ( media-libs/libpng )
+	jpeg? ( media-libs/jpeg )
+	sysfs? ( sys-fs/sysfsutils )
+	zlib? ( sys-libs/zlib )
+	truetype? ( >=media-libs/freetype-2.0.1 )
+	X? ( x11-libs/libXext x11-libs/libX11 )"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	X? ( x11-proto/xextproto x11-proto/xproto )"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	unpack ${A}
+	cd "${S}"
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.2.7-CFLAGS.patch
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.2.0-headers.patch
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.1.1-pkgconfig.patch
+
+	# This is only a partial fix to the X11 order issue #201626.  It's just
+	# the only part we need in order to make the issue go away.  Upstream
+	# bug tracker is currently broken, so list things to do here:
+	#  configure.in:
+	#   - only add -I/usr/X11R6/include to X11_CFLAGS as needed
+	#   - only add -L/usr/X11R6/lib to X11_LIBS as needed
+	#  systems/x11/Makefile.am:
+	#   - add $(X11_LIBS) to end of _LIBADD variables
+	sed -i \
+		-e '/X11_LIBS/s:-L/usr/X11R6/lib::' \
+		-e '/CFLAGS/s:-I/usr/X11R6/include::' \
+		configure
+}
+
+driver_list() {
+	local pfx=$1
+	local dev devs map
+	shift
+	for dev in "$@" ; do
+		use ${pfx}_${dev} || continue
+		map="I_TO_D_${dev}"
+		devs=${devs:+${devs},}${!map:-${dev}}
+	done
+	echo ${devs:-none}
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	local sdlconf="--disable-sdl"
+	if use sdl ; then
+		# since SDL can link against DirectFB and trigger a
+		# dependency loop, only link against SDL if it isn't
+		# broken #61592
+		echo 'int main(){}' > sdl-test.c
+		$(tc-getCC) sdl-test.c -lSDL 2>/dev/null \
+			&& sdlconf="--enable-sdl" \
+			|| ewarn "Disabling SDL since libSDL.so is broken"
+	fi
+
+	econf \
+		--enable-static \
+		$(use_enable X x11) \
+		$(use_enable fbcon fbdev) \
+		$(use_enable mmx) \
+		$(use_enable sse) \
+		$(use_enable jpeg) \
+		$(use_enable png) \
+		$(use_enable gif) \
+		$(use_enable truetype freetype) \
+		$(use_enable fusion multi) \
+		$(use_enable debug) \
+		$(use_enable sysfs) \
+		$(use_enable zlib) \
+		$(use_enable v4l video4linux) \
+		$(use_enable v4l2 video4linux2) \
+		${sdlconf} \
+		--with-gfxdrivers="$(driver_list video_cards ${IUSE_VIDEO_CARDS})" \
+		--with-inputdrivers="$(driver_list input_devices ${IUSE_INPUT_DEVICES})" \
+		--disable-vnc \
+		|| die
+	emake || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "make install failed"
+	dodoc fb.modes AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README* TODO
+	dohtml -r docs/html/*
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	ewarn "Each DirectFB update in the 0.9.xx series"
+	ewarn "breaks DirectFB related applications."
+	ewarn "Please run \"revdep-rebuild\" which can be"
+	ewarn "found by emerging the package 'gentoolkit'."
+	ewarn
+	ewarn "If you have an ALPS touchpad, then you might"
+	ewarn "get your mouse unexpectedly set in absolute"
+	ewarn "mode in all DirectFB applications."
+	ewarn "This can be fixed by removing linuxinput from"
+	ewarn "INPUT_DEVICES."
+}