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+SUMMARY="QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer."
+DESCRIPTION="QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer."
+HOMEPAGE="http://wiki.qemu.org/"
+SRC_URI="git+https://github.com/mmlr/qemu-haiku.git#e57972be33c91222a580d47c68b135aa8fa7b4c3"
+COPYRIGHT="2003-2008 Fabrice Bellard"
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
+REVISION="1"
+ARCHITECTURES="x86"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	qemu = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_img = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_io = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_alpha = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_arm = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_cris = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_i386 = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_lm32 = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_m68k = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_microblaze = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_microblazeel = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_mips = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_mips64 = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_mips64el = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_mipsel = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_moxie = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_or32 = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_ppc = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_ppc64 = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_ppcemb = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_s390x = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_sh4 = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_sh4eb = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_sparc = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_sparc64 = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_unicore32 = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_x86_64 = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_xtensa = $portVersion
+	cmd:qemu_system_xtensaeb = $portVersion
+	"
+
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku >= $haikuVersion
+	lib:libz
+	lib:libintl
+	glib >= 2.12
+	pixman
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	devel:libz
+	devel:libfdt
+	glib_devel >= 2.12
+	pixman_devel
+	"
+
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	haiku_devel >= $haikuVersion
+	cmd:gcc
+	cmd:ld
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:pkg_config
+	cmd:pod2man
+	cmd:python
+	"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	chmod +x configure
+	./configure --prefix=$prefix --mandir=$manDir --datadir=$dataDir/qemu \
+		--docdir=$docDir --bindir=$binDir --libdir=$libDir \
+		--sysconfdir=$settingsDir/qemu
+	make $jobArgs
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make install
+
+	# provide convenience symlink to just "qemu"
+	ln -s qemu-system-i386 $binDir/qemu
+
+	# remove empty target config file
+	rm $settingsDir/qemu/target-x86_64.conf
+}