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+SUMMARY="A probabilistic information retrieval library with numerous bindings"
+DESCRIPTION="Xapian is an open source search engine library written in C++. \
+It has bindings for a large number of other programming languages, including \
+Perl, Python, Java and Ruby. It is hightly adaptable and extensible, fitting \
+a wide range of information retrieval-related tasks. Xapian empowers the Omega \
+search engine package. It supports a wide range of advanced features such as \
+native Unicode support and modern search algorithms."
+HOMEPAGE="https://xapian.org/"
+COPYRIGHT="1999-2017 The Xapian Authors"
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="https://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/$portVersion/xapian-core-$portVersion.tar.xz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="85b5f952de9df925fd13e00f6e82484162fd506d38745613a50b0a2064c6b02b"
+SOURCE_DIR="xapian-core-$portVersion"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="!x86_gcc2 !x86_64"
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="!x86"
+
+libVersion="30.4.0"
+libVersionCompat="$libVersion compat >= ${libVersion%%.*}"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	xapian$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	lib:libxapian$secondaryArchSuffix = $libVersionCompat
+	cmd:copydatabase$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:delve$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:quest$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:simpleexpand$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:simpleindex$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:simplesearch$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:xapian_check$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:xapian_chert_update$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:xapian_compact$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:xapian_config$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:xapian_inspect$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:xapian_metadata$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:xapian_progsrv$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:xapian_replicate$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:xapian_replicate_server$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:xapian_tcpsrv$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libuuid$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+PROVIDES_devel="
+	xapian${secondaryArchSuffix} = $portVersion
+	devel:libxapian$secondaryArchSuffix = $libVersionCompat
+	"
+REQUIRES_devel="
+	xapian$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	devel:libuuid$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:awk
+	cmd:cmp
+	cmd:diff
+	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:sed
+	"
+
+defineDebugInfoPackage xapian$secondaryArchSuffix \
+	"$libDir"/libxapian.so.$libVersion
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	runConfigure ./configure
+	make $jobArgs
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make install
+
+	rm -f "$libDir"/libxapian.la
+
+	prepareInstalledDevelLib libxapian
+	fixPkgconfig
+
+	mkdir -p "$dataDir"/cmake/Modules
+	mv "$libDir"/cmake/xapian "$dataDir"/cmake/Modules/xapian
+
+	packageEntries devel \
+		"$developDir" \
+		"$dataDir"
+}
+
+TEST()
+{
+	make check
+}