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+DESCRIPTION="Exuberant Ctags creates tags files for code browsing in editors" 
+HOMEPAGE="http://ctags.sourceforge.net/" 
+SRC_URI="http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/ctags/ctags-5.8.tar.gz"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
+DEPEND=""
+CHECKSUM_MD5="c00f82ecdcc357434731913e5b48630d"
+BUILD {
+	cd ctags-5.8
+	./configure --prefix=/boot/common
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd ctags-5.8
+		make install prefix=${DESTDIR}/boot/common
+}
+
+LICENSE="GNU GPLv2"
+COPYRIGHT="1996-2009, Darren Hiebert"