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+SUMMARY="A Haskell interpreter and programming environment"
+DESCRIPTION="Hugs 98 is a functional programming system based on Haskell 98, \
+the de facto standard for non-strict functional programming languages. Hugs \
+98 provides an almost complete implementation of Haskell 98"
+HOMEPAGE="http://haskell.org/hugs/"
+COPYRIGHT="1994-2001 Mark P Jones, Alastair Reid, the Yale Haskell Group, \
+and the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology"
+LICENSE="BSD (3-clause)"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="http://ftp.twaren.net/OpenBSD/distfiles/hugs98-Dec2001.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="7a7663b5b21425087775c1206b8d5f186a20a3ef537188d49300176f71057f17"
+SOURCE_DIR="hugs98-Dec2001"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="?x86_gcc2 ?x86 x86_64"
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	hugs98$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:hugs$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:runhugs$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libncursesw$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	devel:libncursesw$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:bison
+	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:libtoolize$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:perl
+	"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	cd src/unix
+
+	libtoolize -vfi
+	runConfigure --omit-dirs 'docDir dataRootDir' ./configure \
+		--with-pthreads
+
+	cd ..
+	make $jobArgs OBJ_DIR=objects
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	cd src
+	make install
+}
+
+TEST()
+{
+	#make check
+	#readline official breaks the tests
+	:
+}