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+SUMMARY="Modern and safe systems programming language"
+DESCRIPTION="Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents almost all crashes*, and eliminates data races."
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.rust-lang.org/"
+LICENSE="MIT"
+COPYRIGHT="2016, The Rust Project Developers"
+srcGitRev="b495ea57163d858facb956a601d78c641149631f"
+srcGitRev2="8598065bd965d9713bfafb6c1e766d63a7b17b89"
+srcGitRev3="d66270786797c98a4aa43dc0e5247e2942bb8c46"
+srcGitRev4="a3736a0a1907cbc8bf619708738815a5fd789c80"
+srcGitRev5="6c83cf726a3b6b2d1a10ecf932005ba15cf84f23"
+srcGitRev6="ac1c94226e9fa17005ce7e2dd52dd6d1875f3137"
+SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/nielx/rust/archive/$srcGitRev.tar.gz"
+SOURCE_URI_2="https://github.com/rust-lang/compiler-rt/archive/$srcGitRev2.tar.gz"
+SOURCE_URI_3="https://github.com/nielx/rust-installer/archive/$srcGitRev3.tar.gz"
+SOURCE_URI_4="https://github.com/rust-lang/hoedown/archive/$srcGitRev4.tar.gz"
+SOURCE_URI_5="https://github.com/nielx/libc/archive/$srcGitRev5.tar.gz"
+SOURCE_URI_6="https://github.com/rust-lang/llvm/archive/$srcGitRev6.tar.gz"
+SOURCE_FILENAME="rust-$srcGitRev.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="cd5012f390567e6da592eec525e2373f50a5541a51f9c0540c24be0aad8d4f05"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256_2="19cab27b6c6906982a6213c745b49f37c75834af1106f2acafc788ffadd84ff7"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256_3="6d1e18819a61c6cef25c58d50033eb160d32187e755558a486aae73ce2c9e852"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256_4="29da85607df523a165c1b01a378f929a0b37b75969119b6ec373d95576978b13"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256_5="e7bdfce7e463c9984d43555951944f9f764190934676e0dbbcdad1f5175986dc"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256_6="57638407e7713018e5cd4c0de29b52e976ddb248db122c13d6ded89f5f3243ce"
+SOURCE_DIR="rust-$srcGitRev"
+REVISION="1"
+ARCHITECTURES="!x86_gcc2 ?x86 ?x86_64"
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="?x86"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	rust$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:rustc = $portVersion
+	cmd:rustdoc = $portVersion
+	cmd:rust_gdb = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:find
+	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:ld$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:python
+	cmd:sed
+	cmd:find
+	cmd:grep
+	cmd:file
+	cmd:git
+	cmd:tar
+	cmd:which
+	cmd:rustc == 1.11.0
+	cmd:cmake
+	"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	rm -rf src/compiler-rt src/llvm src/rust-installer src/liblibc src/rt/hoedown
+	ln -sf /sources-2/compiler-rt-$srcGitRev2 src/compiler-rt
+	ln -sf /sources-3/rust-installer-$srcGitRev3 src/rust-installer
+	ln -sf /sources-4/hoedown-$srcGitRev4 src/rt/hoedown
+	ln -sf /sources-5/libc-$srcGitRev5 src/liblibc
+	ln -sf /sources-6/llvm-$srcGitRev6 src/llvm
+	# Do not use runConfigure: it generates too much noise, and it creates a totally impossible directory structure
+	#runConfigure --omit-dirs "docDir libExecDir dataRootDir includeDir sharedStateDir sbinDir binDir oldIncludeDir" ./configure --disable-jemalloc --build=i686-unknown-haiku --host=i686-unknown-haiku --target=i686-unknown-haiku
+
+	./configure --prefix=$prefix --mandir=$manDir --disable-jemalloc \
+	            --enable-local-rust --local-rust-root=/boot/system/ \
+	            --release-channel=stable
+
+	make
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make install
+
+	# move documentation to the proper place
+	mkdir -p $developDocDir
+	mv $prefix/share/doc/rust/* $developDocDir
+	rm -rf $prefix/share
+
+	if [ -n "$secondaryArchSuffix" ]; then
+		# move the libs to the x86 subdir
+		mkdir -p $libDir
+		mv $prefix/lib/*.so $libDir
+	fi
+
+	# move the `rustlib` folder to the developLibDirs (as it is a framework of sorts)
+	# do create a link in $prefix/lib as that is where rustc expects things to live
+	mkdir -p $developLibDir
+	mv $prefix/lib/rustlib $developLibDir
+	cd $prefix/lib
+	ln -s ../$relativeDevelopLibDir/rustlib rustlib
+
+	# clean out unneccesary files created by the rust installer
+	rm $developLibDir/rustlib/components
+	rm $developLibDir/rustlib/install.log
+	rm $developLibDir/rustlib/manifest-rust-docs
+	rm $developLibDir/rustlib/manifest-rust-std-*-haiku
+	rm $developLibDir/rustlib/manifest-rustc
+	rm $developLibDir/rustlib/rust-installer-version
+	rm $developLibDir/rustlib/uninstall.sh
+}
+
+TEST()
+{
+	make check
+}