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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/net-dns/c-ares/c-ares-1.5.3.ebuild,v 1.1 2008/09/18 08:12:32 pva Exp $
+
+inherit eutils
+
+DESCRIPTION="C library that resolves names asynchronously"
+HOMEPAGE="http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/"
+SRC_URI="http://daniel.haxx.se/projects/c-ares/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="MIT"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~hppa ~ia64 ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~s390 ~sh ~sparc ~x86 ~x86-fbsd"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND=""
+
+
+src_unpack() {
+	unpack ${A}
+	cd "${S}"
+
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}"/c-ares-unrealircd.patch || die "epatch failed"
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	econf --enable-shared || die
+	emake || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install || die
+	dodoc CHANGES NEWS README*
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	ewarn "The soname for libares has changed in c-ares-1.4.0."
+	#ewarn "If you have upgraded from that or earlier version, it is recommended to run:"
+	ewarn
+	ewarn "revdep-rebuild --library libcares.so.1"
+	ewarn
+	ewarn "This will fix linking errors caused by this change."
+	echo
+}