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+SUMMARY="Modern decompressor for old data compression formats"
+DESCRIPTION="This is a collection of decompression routines for old formats \
+popular in the Amiga, Atari computers and some other systems from 80's \
+and 90's as well as some that are currently used which were used in a some \
+specific way in these old systems."
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/temisu/ancient"
+COPYRIGHT="2017-2022, Teemu Suutari and contributors"
+LICENSE="BSD (2-clause)"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="https://github.com/temisu/ancient/archive/v$portVersion.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="9c6b31e4d968ec3adb25596a0b30405d1080d3de0546f1485ecb0ac2eca6261d"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="all !x86_gcc2"
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
+
+commandSuffix=$secondaryArchSuffix
+commandBinDir=$binDir
+if [ "$targetArchitecture" = x86_gcc2 ]; then
+	commandSuffix=
+	commandBinDir=$prefix/bin
+fi
+
+libVersion="$portVersion"
+libVersionCompat="$libVersion compat >= ${libVersion%%.*}"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	ancient$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:ancient$commandSuffix = $portVersion
+	lib:libancient$secondaryArchSuffix = $libVersionCompat
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+PROVIDES_devel="
+	ancient${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel = $portVersion
+	devel:libancient$secondaryArchSuffix = $libVersionCompat
+	"
+REQUIRES_devel="
+	ancient$secondaryArchSuffix == $portVersion base
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	autoconf_archive
+	cmd:aclocal
+	cmd:autoconf
+	cmd:autoreconf
+	cmd:automake
+	cmd:g++$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:ld$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:libtoolize$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:pkg_config$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+defineDebugInfoPackage ancient$secondaryArchSuffix \
+	"$libDir"/libancient.so.$libVersion
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	./autogen.sh
+
+	runConfigure --omit-dirs binDir ./configure \
+		--disable-static \
+		--bindir=$commandBinDir
+	make $jobArgs
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	make install
+	rm -f "$libDir"/libancient.la
+
+	prepareInstalledDevelLib libancient
+	fixPkgconfig
+
+	# devel package
+	packageEntries devel \
+		$developDir
+}
+
+TEST()
+{
+	make check
+}