diff --git a/net-misc/curl/curl-7.26.0.recipe b/net-misc/curl/curl-7.26.0.recipe
index 1e3eac980..f55ce9f7c 100644
--- a/net-misc/curl/curl-7.26.0.recipe
+++ b/net-misc/curl/curl-7.26.0.recipe
@@ -1,33 +1,76 @@
-DESCRIPTION="curl and libcurl"
+SUMMARY="A commandline-tool and library for downloading data from URLs"
 HOMEPAGE="http://curl.haxx.se"
+COPYRIGHT="1996-2012, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>. All rights reserved."
+LICENSE="Curl"
 SRC_URI="http://curl.haxx.se/download/curl-7.26.0.tar.bz2"
 CHECKSUM_MD5="bfa80f01b3d300359cfb4d409b6136a3"
 REVISION="1"
-STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
-DEPEND=""
+ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 ?x86"
+
+# libcurl's SONAME is bumped whenever backward compat is broken, v7.16
+# introduced SO-version 4, which is still current
+PROVIDES="
+	curl = $portVersion
+	cmd:curl = $portVersion compat >= 7.16
+	lib:libcurl = $portVersion compat >= 7.16
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku >= $haikuVersion
+	lib:libssl
+	"
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	lib:libssl
+	cmd:autoconf
+	cmd:gcc
+	cmd:ld
+	cmd:libtoolize
+	cmd:make
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	haiku_devel >= $haikuVersion
+	"
+
+SOURCE_DIR="$portVersionedName"
+
 BUILD()
 {
-	cd curl-7.26.0
 	libtoolize --force --copy --install
 	autoconf
-	./configure --prefix=`finddir B_COMMON_DIRECTORY` \
-		--enable-ipv6 \
-		--mandir=`finddir B_COMMON_DOCUMENTATION_DIRECTORY`/man \
-		--with-ca-bundle=`finddir B_COMMON_DATA_DIRECTORY`/ssl/cert.pem
+	./configure $configureDirArgs \
+		--enable-ipv6
 	make
 }
 
 INSTALL()
 {
-	cd curl-7.26.0
 	make install
+
+	# prepare develop/lib
+	prepareInstalledDevelLibs libcurl
+	fixPkgconfig
+	
+	# install html documentation for curl
+	mkdir -p "$docDir"
+	install -c -m 644 "docs/curl.html" "$docDir"
+
+	# install html development documentation for libcurl
+	mkdir -p "$developDocDir"
+	for h in docs/libcurl/*.html; do 
+		install -c -m 644 "$h" "$developDocDir"
+	done
 }
 
 TEST()
 {
-	cd curl-7.26.0
 	make check
 }
 
-LICENSE="Curl"
-COPYRIGHT="1996-2012, Daniel Stenberg, <daniel@haxx.se>. All rights reserved."
+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.
+	"