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+SUMMARY="MSWord 6/7/8/9 binary file format to HTML converter"
+DESCRIPTION="A library that can load and parse Word 2000, 97, 95 and 6 file formats."
+HOMEPAGE="https://sourceforge.net/projects/wvware"
+COPYRIGHT="2010 Caolan McNamara, Dom Lachowicz, and others"
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="http://www.abisource.com/downloads/wv/$portVersion/wv-$portVersion.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="4c730d3b325c0785450dd3a043eeb53e1518598c4f41f155558385dd2635c19d"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="all !x86_gcc2"
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
+
+commandBinDir=$binDir
+commandSuffix=$secondaryArchSuffix
+if [ "$targetArchitecture" = x86_gcc2 ]; then
+	commandSuffix=
+	commandBinDir=$prefix/bin
+fi
+
+libVersion="4.0.5"
+libVersionCompat="$libVersion compat >= ${libVersion%%.*}"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	wv$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	lib:libwv$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	lib:libwv_1.2$secondaryArchSuffix = $libVersionCompat
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libglib_2.0$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libgobject_2.0$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libgsf_1$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libintl$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libxml2$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+PROVIDES_devel="
+	wv${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel = $portVersion
+	devel:libwv$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES_devel="
+	wv$secondaryArchSuffix == $portVersion base
+	devel:libffi$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libglib_2.0$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libgsf_1$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libpcre$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libxml2$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+PROVIDES_tools="
+	wv${secondaryArchSuffix}_tools
+	cmd:wvAbw$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvCleanlatex$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvConvert$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvDvi$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvDocbook$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvHtml$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvLatex$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvMime$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvPdf$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvPs$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvRtf$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvSummary$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvText$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvVersion$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvWare$commandSuffix
+	cmd:wvWml$commandSuffix
+	"
+REQUIRES_tools="
+	wv$secondaryArchSuffix == $portVersion base
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libglib_2.0$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libgobject_2.0$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libgsf_1$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libintl$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libxml2$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	devel:libglib_2.0$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libgsf_1$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libxml2$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:aclocal
+	cmd:autoreconf
+	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:libtoolize$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:pkg_config$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+defineDebugInfoPackage wv$secondaryArchSuffix \
+	$libDir/libwv-1.2.so.$libVersion
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	touch AUTHORS ChangeLog
+	autoreconf -fi
+
+	runConfigure --omit-dirs binDir ./configure \
+		--bindir=$commandBinDir
+
+	make $jobArgs OBJ_DIR=objects
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make install
+
+	# remove libtool file
+	rm $libDir/*.la
+
+	prepareInstalledDevelLibs libwv
+	fixPkgconfig
+
+	packageEntries devel \
+		$developDir
+
+	packageEntries tools \
+		$commandBinDir \
+		$dataDir \
+		$manDir
+}
+
+TEST()
+{
+	make check
+}