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+SUMMARY="Display TUI widgets for shell scripts"
+DESCRIPTION="
+Dialog is an application used in shell scripts which displays text user
+interface widgets. It uses the curses or ncurses library.
+"
+HOMEPAGE="http://invisible-island.net/dialog/"
+COPYRIGHT="1999-2014 Thomas E. Dickey"
+LICENSE="GNU LGPL v2"
+SRC_URI="ftp://invisible-island.net/dialog/dialog.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="4ed9b2f1162eb7706857338d11e70f8e"
+REVISION="1"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	dialog = $portVersion
+	cmd:dialog = $portVersion
+"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku >= $haikuVersion
+	lib:libncurses
+"
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku_devel >= $haikuVersion
+	devel:libncurses
+"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:gcc
+	cmd:ld
+	cmd:make
+"
+SOURCE_DIR="dialog-1.2-20140219"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	./configure --bindir=$binDir
+	make
+}
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make install
+}