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+# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Header: $
+
+WANT_AUTOCONF="2.5"
+
+
+inherit eutils autotools multilib base
+
+DESCRIPTION="Library for DVD navigation tools"
+HOMEPAGE="http://mplayerhq.hu/"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sh ~sparc ~x86"
+IUSE="debug"
+SRC_URI="http://www3.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/dvdnav/libdvdnav-4.1.2.tar.gz"
+
+PROVIDE="media-libs/libdvdread"
+
+RDEPEND=">=media-libs/libdvdread-0.9.7"
+DEPEND=">=media-libs/libdvdread-0.9.7"
+
+src_unpack() {
+	base_src_unpack
+	cd "${S}"
+	#remove it so that it can't be found and so that we get the errors we WANT :-) (like, "can't find nav_types.h" which should be in /usr/include/dvdread and is also in src/dvdread (which may have incompatible headers))
+	mv src/dvdread src/notdvdread
+
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}/${P}-nomake_libdvdread.diff"
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}/${P}-mydebug.diff"
+
+	eautoreconf
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+
+	#there is probably a MUCH better fix than the following line, but I've heard rumors of dissent concerning configure scripts, so I won't waste my time in m4 :-)
+	LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} -L/usr/$(get_libdir)/dvdread -ldvdread"
+	./configure --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/$(get_libdir) \
+		--enable-static --enable-shared \
+		--disable-strip --disable-opts \
+		$(use_enable debug) || die "configure died"
+
+	emake || die "emake died"
+}
+
+src_install () {
+	emake -j1 DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "emake install died"
+	dodoc AUTHORS DEVELOPMENT-POLICY.txt ChangeLog TODO \
+		doc/dvd_structures
+}