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+SUMMARY="A free word processing program similar to Microsoft® Word."
+DESCRIPTION="AbiWord is a free word processing program similar to Microsoft® \
+Word. It is suitable for a wide variety of word processing tasks.
+
+AbiWord allows you to collaborate with multiple people on one document at the \
+same time. It is tightly integrated with the AbiCollab.net web service, which \
+lets you store documents online, allows easy document sharing with your \
+friends, and performs format conversions on the fly.
+"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.abiword.org"
+REVISION="1"
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
+COPYRIGHT="1998-2014 the AbiSource community"
+ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2"
+
+SRC_URI="git+https://github.com/HaikuArchives/AbiWord.git#ceefaa5f21b68921719adfce1ca775936f8edf4c"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	abiword = $portVersion
+"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	devel:fribidi
+	devel:libexpat
+	devel:libiconv
+	devel:libpng
+	devel:libpopt
+	devel:libpsiconv
+	devel:libxml2
+	devel:libz
+"
+
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	haiku_devel >= $haikuVersion
+	cmd:gcc
+	cmd:make
+"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	chmod +x abi/configure
+	chmod +x wv/configure
+	cd abi/src
+	make $jobArgs
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	mkdir $appsDir
+	cp abi/src/*/bin/* $appsDir
+	addAppDeskbarSymlink $appsDir/Abiword Abiword
+}