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+SUMMARY="A set of database routines"
+DESCRIPTION="GNU dbm is a set of database routines that use extendible \
+hashing andworks similar to the standard UNIX dbm routines. The library \
+provides also an optional compatibility layer for UNIX-like \
+dbm and ndbm calls."
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.gnu.org.ua/software/gdbm/"
+COPYRIGHT="2011, 2016-2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc."
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v3"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-$portVersion.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="9d252cbd7d793f7b12bcceaddda98d257c14f4d1890d851c386c37207000a253"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
+
+libVersion=4.0.0
+libVersionCompat="$libVersion compat >= 4"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	gdbm$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:gdbm_dump$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:gdbm_load$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:gdbmtool$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libgdbm$secondaryArchSuffix = $libVersionCompat
+	lib:libgdbm_compat$secondaryArchSuffix = $libVersionCompat
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libintl$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libiconv$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libncurses$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libreadline$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+PROVIDES_devel="
+	gdbm${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel = $portVersion
+	devel:libgdbm$secondaryArchSuffix = $libVersion
+	devel:libgdbm_compat$secondaryArchSuffix = $libVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES_devel="
+	gdbm$secondaryArchSuffix == $portVersion base
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	devel:libintl$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libiconv$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libncurses$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libreadline$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:awk
+	cmd:aclocal
+	cmd:autoconf
+	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:libtoolize$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	"
+
+defineDebugInfoPackage gdbm$secondaryArchSuffix  \
+	$binDir/gdbm_dump \
+	$binDir/gdbm_load \
+	$binDir/gdbmtool \
+	$libDir/libgdbm.so.$libVersion \
+	$libDir/libgdbm_compat.so.$libVersion
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	autoreconf -vfi
+	runConfigure ./configure --enable-libgdbm-compat
+	make $jobArgs
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make install
+
+	#remove libtool files
+	rm -r $libDir/*.la
+
+	# prepare develop/lib
+	prepareInstalledDevelLibs libgdbm libgdbm_compat
+
+	if [ -n "$secondaryArchSuffix" ]; then
+		rm -rf $manDir
+		maybe_manDir=
+	else
+		maybe_manDir=$manDir
+	fi
+
+	# devel package
+	packageEntries devel \
+		$developDir \
+		$maybe_manDir
+
+	rm -r $documentationDir
+}
+
+TEST()
+{
+	make check
+}