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+# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/dev-libs/libxml/libxml-1.8.17-r2.ebuild,v 1.30 2008/10/14 09:24:33 robbat2 Exp $
+
+inherit eutils flag-o-matic
+
+DESCRIPTION="Version 1 of the library to manipulate XML files"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.xmlsoft.org/"
+SRC_URI="ftp://xmlsoft.org/old/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2 LGPL-2"
+SLOT="1"
+KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 mips ppc ppc64 sh sparc x86"
+IUSE="doc"
+
+RDEPEND=">=sys-libs/ncurses-5.2"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	>=sys-libs/readline-4.1
+	doc? ( >=dev-util/gtk-doc-1 )"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	unpack ${A}
+	cd "${S}"
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/configure-LANG.patch
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	LIBS="-lncurses" econf || die
+	emake -j1 || die # Doesn't work with -j 4 (hallski)
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	make DESTDIR="${D}" \
+		BASE_DIR=/usr/share/doc \
+		DOC_MODULE=${PF} \
+		TARGET_DIR=/usr/share/doc/${PF}/html \
+		install || die
+
+	# This link must be fixed
+	rm "${D}"/usr/include/gnome-xml/libxml
+	dosym /usr/include/gnome-xml /usr/include/gnome-xml/libxml
+
+	dodoc AUTHORS ChangeLog NEWS README
+}
+
+pkg_preinst() {
+	if [[ -e ${ROOT}/usr/include/gnome-xml/libxml ]] ; then
+		rm -f "${ROOT}"/usr/include/gnome-xml/libxml
+	fi
+}