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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/sys-power/acpid/acpid-1.0.6-r1.ebuild,v 1.5 2008/06/14 09:00:57 flameeyes Exp $
+
+inherit eutils toolchain-funcs flag-o-matic
+
+DESCRIPTION="Daemon for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface"
+HOMEPAGE="http://acpid.sourceforge.net"
+SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/acpid/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 ia64 -ppc x86"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND="sys-apps/sed"
+RDEPEND=""
+
+src_unpack() {
+	unpack ${A}
+	cd "${S}"
+	sed -i \
+		-e '/^CFLAGS /{s:=:+=:;s:-Werror -g::}' \
+		Makefile
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	append-flags -D_GNU_SOURCE
+
+	# DO NOT COMPILE WITH OPTIMISATIONS (bug #22365)
+	# That is a note to the devs.  IF you are a user, go ahead and optimise
+	# if you want, but we won't support bugs associated with that.
+	emake CC="$(tc-getCC)" INSTPREFIX="${D}" || die "emake failed"
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	emake INSTPREFIX="${D}" install || die "emake install failed"
+
+	exeinto /etc/acpi
+	newexe "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.0.6-default.sh default.sh || die
+	insinto /etc/acpi/events
+	newins "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.0.4-default default || die
+
+	dodoc README Changelog TODO
+
+	newinitd "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.0.6-init.d acpid
+	newconfd "${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-1.0.6-conf.d acpid
+
+	docinto examples
+	dodoc samples/{acpi_handler.sh,sample.conf}
+
+	docinto examples/battery
+	dodoc samples/battery/*
+
+	docinto examples/panasonic
+	dodoc samples/panasonic/*
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	echo
+	einfo "You may wish to read the Gentoo Linux Power Management Guide,"
+	einfo "which can be found online at:"
+	einfo "    http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/power-management-guide.xml"
+	echo
+	elog "As of version 1.0.6, acpid uses system log facility instead of custom log"
+	elog "file. This means acpid messages will be usually located in "
+	elog "/var/log/messages (and not in /var/log/acpid) for common setups."
+	echo
+}