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+SUMMARY="The biblical text research engine"
+DESCRIPTION="The SWORD Project is the CrossWire Bible Society's free Bible \
+software project. Its purpose is to create cross-platform open-source tools-- \
+covered by the GNU General Public License-- that allow programmers and Bible \
+societies to write new Bible software more quickly and easily. We also create \
+Bible study software for all readers, students, scholars, and translators of \
+the Bible, and have a growing collection of over 200 texts in over 50 languages."
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.crosswire.org/sword"
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
+COPYRIGHT="1998-2014 CrossWire Bible Society"
+SRC_URI="http://www.crosswire.org/ftpmirror/pub/sword/source/v1.7/sword-1.7.4.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="995da8cf5a207c1f09809bf4b9db0bd7d267da5fcdb9d6666c9b313edd9d213d"
+REVISION="1"
+ARCHITECTURES="x86 ?x86_64"
+if [ $effectiveTargetArchitecture != x86_gcc2 ]; then
+    # x86_gcc2 is fine as primary target architecture as long as we're building
+    # for a different secondary architecture.
+    ARCHITECTURES="$ARCHITECTURES x86_gcc2"
+else
+    ARCHITECTURES="$ARCHITECTURES !x86_gcc2"
+fi
+
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	sword$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:diatheke$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:imp2gbs$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:imp2ld$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:imp2vs$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:installmgr$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:mkfastmod$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:mod2imp$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:mod2osis$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:mod2vpl$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:mod2zmod$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:osis2mod$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:tei2mod$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:vpl2mod$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:vs2osisref$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:vs2osisreftxt$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:xml2gbs$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	lib:libsword$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	"
+
+PROVIDES_devel="
+	sword${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel = $portVersion
+	devel:libsword$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	"
+
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libcurl$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libssl$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libcrypto$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+REQUIRES_devel="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	sword$secondaryArchSuffix == $portVersion base
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	devel:libcurl$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libssl$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libcrypto$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:awk
+	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:ld$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	runConfigure ./configure
+	make $jobArgs
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make $jobArgs install
+
+	prepareInstalledDevelLibs \
+		libsword
+
+	packageEntries devel \
+		$developDir
+}