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+
+# Originally by Nathan Brink <ohnobinki@ohnopublishing.net>, 2008
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+inherit eutils
+
+DESCRIPTION="Provides the pthreads API on windows"
+HOMEPAGE="http://sourceware.org/pthreads-win32/"
+SRC_URI="ftp://sourceware.org/pub/pthreads-win32/pthreads-w32-2-8-0-release.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+#This is commented because, even w32api is installed into my /usr/mingw32 sysroot, crossdev didn't automatically add the package to /usr/mingw32/etc/portage/profile/package.provided
+#RDEPEND="dev-util/w32api"
+DEPEND=""
+PDEPEND=""
+
+src_compile() {
+	#cd "pthreads-w32-${PV}-release"
+	#cd "pthreads-w32-2-8-0-release"
+	cd pthreads-w32-*-release
+	emake CROSS="${CHOST}-" clean GC-inlined || die "emake failed"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	mkdir -p "${D}"usr/include "${D}"usr/bin "${D}"usr/lib && \
+		cd pthreads-w32-*-release && \
+		cp pthread.h sched.h semaphore.h "${D}"usr/include/ && \
+		cp pthreadGC2.dll "${D}"usr/bin/ && \
+		cp libpthreadGC2.a "${D}"usr/lib/ && \
+		dosym pthreadGC2.dll /usr/bin/pthread.dll && \
+		dosym libpthreadGC2.a /usr/lib/libpthread.a || \
+		die "install failed"
+	dodoc COPYING COPYING.LIB PROGRESS MAINTAINERS NEWS ANNOUNCE BUGS ChangeLog CONTRIBUTORS WinCE-PORT README*
+}