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+DESCRIPTION="C library and command-line tools for reading and writing tar, cpio, zip, ISO, and other archive formats." 
+HOMEPAGE="http://libarchive.github.com/" 
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/downloads/libarchive/libarchive/libarchive-2.8.5.zip"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
+DEPEND=""
+CHECKSUM_MD5="58d1b202b4878e9da45cfe6d2a740881"
+BUILD {
+	cd libarchive-2.8.5
+	libtoolize --force --copy --install
+	aclocal -I build/autoconf
+	autoconf
+	automake
+	chmod 755 configure
+	COMMON_DOCS=`finddir B_COMMON_DOCUMENTATION_DIRECTORY`
+	COMMON_BIN=`finddir B_COMMON_BIN_DIRECTORY`
+	COMMON_DIR=`finddir B_COMMON_DIRECTORY`
+	./configure --prefix=$COMMON_DIR \
+	--mandir=$COMMON_DOCS/man
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd libarchive-2.8.5
+	make install
+}
+
+TEST { 
+        cd libarchive-2.8.5
+        make check 
+}
+
+LICENSE="BSD (2-clause)"
+COPYRIGHT="2003-2009 Tim Kientzle"