diff --git a/dev-libs/confuse/confuse-2.6-r4.ebuild b/dev-libs/confuse/confuse-2.6-r4.ebuild
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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/dev-libs/confuse/confuse-2.6-r3.ebuild,v 1.6 2008/12/17 22:09:10 maekke Exp $
-
-inherit eutils autotools
-
-DESCRIPTION="a configuration file parser library"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.nongnu.org/confuse/"
-SRC_URI="http://bzero.se/confuse/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="LGPL-2"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~sparc-fbsd x86 ~x86-fbsd"
-IUSE="nls"
-
-DEPEND="sys-devel/flex
-	sys-devel/libtool
-	dev-util/pkgconfig
-	nls? ( sys-devel/gettext )"
-RDEPEND="nls? ( virtual/libintl )"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	ewarn "This copy of confuse has a patch that causes cfg_include"
-	ewarn "to include files relative to the file calling cfg_include."
-	ewarn "This may break packages designed for vanilla confuse. Please"
-	ewarn "bug me at https://ohnopublishing.net/bugs/ if you have problems"
-	ewarn "with this."
-}
-
-src_unpack() {
-	unpack ${A}
-	cd "${S}"
-	# bug #236347
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-O0.patch
-	# bug 239020
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-solaris.patch
-	# don't compile examples:
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-noexamples.patch
-
-	#relative cfg_include()s
-	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${P}-relativeincludes.patch
-	#force regeneration of lexer.c
-	rm src/lexer.c
-
-	# drop -Werror, bug #208095 (in confuse-2.7)
-	sed -i -e 's/-Werror//' */Makefile.* || die
-
-	eautoreconf
-}
-
-src_compile() {
-	econf --enable-shared --disable-examples || die
-	emake || die
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die
-
-	doman doc/man/man3/*.3
-	dodoc AUTHORS NEWS README
-	dodoc examples/*.c examples/*.conf
-	dohtml doc/html/* || die
-}