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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/nspr/nspr-4.6.8.ebuild,v 1.12 2009/04/29 20:56:27 fauli Exp $
+
+inherit eutils multilib toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="Netscape Portable Runtime"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/"
+SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/nspr/releases/v${PV}/src/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="|| ( MPL-1.1 GPL-2 LGPL-2.1 )"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ~mips ppc ppc64 sparc x86 ~x86-fbsd"
+IUSE="ipv6 debug"
+
+DEPEND=""
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	unpack ${A}
+	cd "${S}"
+	mkdir build inst
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-4.6.1-config.patch
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-4.6.1-config-1.patch
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-4.6.1-lang.patch
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-4.6.1-prtime.patch
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	cd build
+
+	echo > "${T}"/test.c
+	$(tc-getCC) -c "${T}"/test.c -o "${T}"/test.o
+	case $(file "${T}"/test.o) in
+		*64-bit*) myconf="${myconf} --enable-64bit";;
+		*32-bit*) ;;
+		*) die "Failed to detect whether your arch is 64bits or 32bits, disable distcc if you're using it, please";;
+	esac
+
+	if use ipv6; then
+		myconf="${myconf} --enable-ipv6"
+	fi
+
+	myconf="${myconf} --libdir=/usr/$(get_libdir)/nspr"
+
+	ECONF_SOURCE="../mozilla/nsprpub" econf \
+		$(use_enable debug) \
+		${myconf} || die "econf failed"
+	make CC="$(tc-getCC)" CXX="$(tc-getCXX)" || die
+}
+
+src_install () {
+	# Their build system is royally fucked, as usual
+	MINOR_VERSION=6
+	cd "${S}/build"
+	make install
+	insinto /usr
+	doins -r dist/*
+	rm -rf "${D}"/usr/bin/lib*.so
+
+	#removing includes/nspr/md as per fedora spec
+	# i.e a waste of space!
+	rm -rf "${D}/usr/include/nspr/md"
+
+	# there have been /usr/lib/nspr changes (like the ldpath below), but never
+	# have I seen any libraries end up in this directory. lets fix that.
+	# note: I tried doing this fix via the build system. It wont work.
+	if [ ! -e "${D}/usr/lib/nspr" ] ; then
+		mkdir -p "${D}/usr/lib/nspr"
+		mv "${D}"/usr/lib/*so* "${D}/usr/lib/nspr"
+		mv "${D}"/usr/lib/*\.a "${D}/usr/lib/nspr"
+	fi
+	# and while we're at it, lets make it actually use the arch's libdir damnit
+	if [ "lib" != "$(get_libdir)" ] ; then
+		mv "${D}/usr/lib" "${D}/usr/$(get_libdir)"
+	fi
+	#and while at it move them to files with versions-ending
+	#and link them back :)
+	cd "${D}/usr/$(get_libdir)/nspr"
+	for file in *.so; do
+		mv ${file} ${file}.${MINOR_VERSION}
+		ln -s ${file}.${MINOR_VERSION} ${file}
+	done
+	# cope with libraries being in /usr/lib/nspr
+	dodir /etc/env.d
+	echo "LDPATH=/usr/$(get_libdir)/nspr" > "${D}/etc/env.d/08nspr"
+
+	# install nspr-config
+	insinto	 /usr/bin
+	doins "${S}/build/config/nspr-config"
+	chmod a+x "${D}/usr/bin/nspr-config"
+
+	# create pkg-config file
+	insinto /usr/$(get_libdir)/pkgconfig/
+	doins "${S}/build/config/nspr.pc"
+}