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+SUMMARY="XEmacs editor"
+DESCRIPTION="highly customizable open source text editor and application development system"
+HOMEPAGE="http://xemacs.org/"
+SRC_URI="hg+https://bitbucket.org/mmu_man/xemacs#24b993054953"
+REVISION="1"
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
+COPYRIGHT="1998-2000 Hrvoje Niksic
+	2000-2001 Michael Sperber
+	2001 Ben Wing
+	2001 Didier Verna
+	2004 Stephen Turnbull
+	2005-2006 Aidan Kehoe"
+# TODO: FIXME:
+#Bootstrapping from temacs...
+#Warning: 
+#        XEmacs was unable to determine a good value for the user's $HOME
+#        directory, and will be using the value:
+#                /
+#        This is probably incorrect.
+
+
+ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 ?x86_64"
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86"
+
+#POLICY WARNING: no matching provides "cmd:b2m" for "bin/b2m"
+#POLICY WARNING: no matching provides "cmd:ctags" for "bin/ctags"
+#POLICY WARNING: no matching provides "cmd:ellcc" for "bin/ellcc"
+#POLICY WARNING: no matching provides "cmd:etags" for "bin/etags"
+#POLICY WARNING: no matching provides "cmd:gnuattach" for "bin/gnuattach"
+#POLICY WARNING: no matching provides "cmd:gnuclient" for "bin/gnuclient"
+#POLICY WARNING: no matching provides "cmd:gnudoit" for "bin/gnudoit"
+#POLICY WARNING: no matching provides "cmd:ootags" for "bin/ootags"
+#POLICY WARNING: no matching provides "cmd:xemacs_21.5_b34" for "bin/xemacs-21.5-b34"
+#POLICY WARNING: no matching provides "cmd:xemacs_script" for "bin/xemacs-script
+PROVIDES="
+	xemacs$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	app:xemacs = $portVersion
+	cmd:xemacs = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libiconv$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libncurses$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libpng$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libjpeg$secondaryArchSuffix
+#	lib:libtiff$secondaryArchSuffix
+#	lib:libxpm$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel >= $haikuVersion
+	devel:libiconv$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libncurses$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libz$secondaryArchSuffix >= 1.2.8
+	devel:libpng$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libjpeg$secondaryArchSuffix
+#	devel:libtiff$secondaryArchSuffix
+#	devel:libxpm$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:autoconf
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:tar
+	cmd:which
+	cmd:makeinfo
+	"
+
+# TODO: fix lispdir to not use $HOME
+BUILD()
+{
+	export DISABLEASLR=1
+	autoconf
+	export HOME=/boot/home
+	runConfigure ./configure \
+		--with-tty=yes --with-pop --with-x11=no --with-ipv6-cname=no \
+		--with-mule --with-wnn=no \
+		-with-beos=yes \
+		--with-toolbars=yes \
+		--with-scrollbars=no \
+		--with-menubars=no \
+		--with-dialogs=no \
+		--with-widgets=no \
+		--with-dragndrop=yes \
+		--with-system-malloc --disable-mc-alloc --with-mc-alloc=no \
+		--with-postgresql=no \
+		--disable-kkcc \
+		--with-png
+	make clean
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	export DISABLEASLR=1
+	make install
+	addattr SYS:ENV DISABLEASLR=1 $binDir/xemacs-21*
+	addAppDeskbarSymlink $binDir/xemacs XEmacs
+}