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+SUMMARY="A text-based IRC client"
+DESCRIPTION="Irssi is an IRC client written in the C programming language.\
+It uses a text-mode user interface. Numerous Perl scripts have been \
+made available for Irssi to customise how it looks and operates. Plugins \
+are available which add encryption and protocols such as ICQ and XMPP."
+HOMEPAGE="https://irssi.org/"
+COPYRIGHT="1999-2016 Timo Sirainen"
+LICENSE="GNU GPL v2"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/irssi/irssi/releases/download/$portVersion/irssi-$portVersion.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="e560f537ca878471e64a3e9aee6967539717557a6edfd1746098b0481d5a5ad1"
+SOURCE_DIR="irssi-$portVersion"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="?x86_gcc2 ?x86 x86_64"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	irssi = $portVersion
+	cmd:irssi
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku
+	lib:libglib_2.0
+	lib:libiconv
+	lib:libintl
+	lib:libncursesw
+	lib:libperl
+	lib:libssl
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku_devel
+	devel:libglib_2.0
+	devel:libncursesw
+	devel:libssl
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:aclocal
+	cmd:automake
+	cmd:autoconf
+	cmd:gcc
+	cmd:git
+	cmd:libtoolize
+	cmd:links
+	cmd:ld
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:perl
+	cmd:pkg_config
+	"
+
+GLOBAL_WRITABLE_FILES="
+	settings/irssi.conf keep-old
+	"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	chmod +x autogen.sh irssi-version.sh file2header.sh
+	autoreconf -fi
+	runConfigure ./configure --with-perl=module --with-socks \
+		--with-proxy --enable-true-color
+	make $jobArgs
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make install-strip
+
+	rm $libDir/irssi/modules/lib*.la
+}