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+SUMMARY="A commandline-tool and library for downloading data from URLs"
+DESCRIPTION="Curl is a command line tool for transferring data with URL \
+syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, \
+LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP.
+curl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form \
+based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, \
+NTLM, Negotiate, kerberos...), file transfer resume, proxy tunneling and a \
+busload of other useful tricks."
+HOMEPAGE="https://curl.haxx.se/"
+COPYRIGHT="1996-2016 Daniel Stenberg"
+LICENSE="Curl"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="https://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-$portVersion.tar.bz2"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="de60a4725a3d461c70aa571d7d69c788f1816d9d1a8a2ef05f864ce8f01279df"
+ADDITIONAL_FILES="curl.rdef"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="?x86_gcc2 ?x86 x86_64 ?arm"
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="?x86_gcc2 ?x86"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	curl$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	lib:libcurl$secondaryArchSuffix = 4.5.0 compat >= 4
+	cmd:curl$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion compat >= 7.16
+	"
+
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	ca_root_certificates
+	lib:libssl$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+PROVIDES_devel="
+	curl${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel = $portVersion
+	cmd:curl_config$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion compat >= 7.16
+	devel:libcurl$secondaryArchSuffix = 4.5.0 compat >= 4
+	"
+REQUIRES_devel="
+	curl$secondaryArchSuffix == $portVersion base
+	devel:libssl$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	devel:libssl$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:aclocal
+	cmd:autoconf
+	cmd:automake
+	cmd:autoheader
+	cmd:cut
+	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:ld$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:libtoolize$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:nroff
+	cmd:python
+	cmd:pkg_config$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:sed
+	"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	certsInstallDir="$portPackageLinksDir/ca_root_certificates"
+	certsDir="$certsInstallDir/$relativeDataRootDir/ssl"
+
+	autoconf
+	CFLAGS=-D_BSD_SOURCE CXXFLAGS=-D_BSD_SOURCE runConfigure ./configure \
+		--enable-ipv6 --enable-manual \
+		--with-ca-bundle="$certsDir/CARootCertificates.pem"
+	make $jobArgs
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make install
+
+	# remove libtool file
+	rm $libDir/libcurl.la
+
+	local MAJOR="`echo "$portVersion" | cut -d. -f1`"
+	local MIDDLE="`echo "$portVersion" | cut -d. -f2`"
+	local MINOR="`echo "$portVersion" | cut -d. -f3`"
+	sed \
+		-e "s|@MAJOR@|$MAJOR|" \
+		-e "s|@MIDDLE@|$MIDDLE|" \
+		-e "s|@MINOR@|$MINOR|" \
+		$portDir/additional-files/curl.rdef > curl.rdef
+
+	addResourcesToBinaries curl.rdef \
+		$binDir/curl
+
+	# prepare develop/lib
+	prepareInstalledDevelLib libcurl
+	fixPkgconfig
+
+	# fix curl-config
+	fixDevelopLibDirReferences $binDir/curl-config
+	sed -i \
+		-e "s,--libexecdir=$developLibDir,--libexecdir=$libExecDir,g" \
+		-e "s,--libdir=$developLibDir,--libdir=$libDir,g" \
+		$binDir/curl-config
+
+	if [ -n "$secondaryArchSuffix" ]; then
+		maybe_manDir_man1_curl_config=
+		maybe_manDir_man3=
+	else
+		maybe_manDir_man1_curl_config=$manDir/man1/curl-config.1
+		maybe_manDir_man3=$manDir/man3
+	fi
+
+	# devel package
+	packageEntries devel \
+		$binDir/curl-config \
+		$dataDir/aclocal \
+		$developDir \
+		$maybe_manDir_man1_curl_config \
+		$maybe_manDir_man3
+
+	# Remove stuff we don't need in the secondary architecture base package.
+	if [ -n "$secondaryArchSuffix" ]; then
+		rm -rf $documentationDir
+	fi
+}
+
+TEST()
+{
+	make check
+}