diff --git a/sci-libs/dlib/dlib-19.8.recipe b/sci-libs/dlib/dlib-19.8.recipe
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+SUMMARY="Numerical and networking C++ library"
+DESCRIPTION="Dlib is a modern C++ toolkit containing machine learning \
+algorithms and tools for creating complex software in C++ to solve real \
+world problems."
+HOMEPAGE="http://dlib.net/"
+COPYRIGHT="2003-2017 Davis E. King"
+LICENSE="Boost v1.0"
+REVISION="1"
+SOURCE_URI="https://downloads.sourceforge.net/dclib/dlib-$portVersion.tar.bz2"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="dbd31f7b97166e58f366c83fa5127e9fa44c492921558b61ce63a7d775be696b"
+
+ARCHITECTURES="!x86_gcc2 x86 x86_64"
+SECONDARY_ARCHITECTURES="x86"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	dlib$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	lib:libdlib$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libgif$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libjpeg$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:liblapack$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libopenblas$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libpng16$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libsqlite3$secondaryArchSuffix
+	lib:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+PROVIDES_devel="
+	dlib${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel = $portVersion
+	devel:libdlib$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	"
+REQUIRES_devel="
+	dlib$secondaryArchSuffix == $portVersion base
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel
+	devel:libgif$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libjpeg$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:liblapack$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libopenblas$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libpng16$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libsqlite3$secondaryArchSuffix
+	devel:libz$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:cmake
+	cmd:g++$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:pkg_config$secondaryArchSuffix
+	"
+
+defineDebugInfoPackage dlib$secondaryArchSuffix \
+	$libDir/libdlib.so.19.8.0
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	mkdir -p build && cd "$_"
+
+	cmake .. \
+		$cmakeDirArgs
+
+	make $jobArgs
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	cd build
+	make install
+
+	mkdir -p $libDir/cmake/
+
+	prepareInstalledDevelLib libdlib
+
+	sed  -i "1i prefix=$prefix" \
+		$libDir/pkgconfig/dlib-1.pc
+
+	fixPkgconfig
+
+	packageEntries devel \
+		$developDir \
+		$libDir/cmake
+}
+
+TEST()
+{
+	#make test
+	# dlib provides no tests through cmake AFAIK
+	true
+}
diff --git a/sci-libs/dlib/licenses/Boost v1.0 b/sci-libs/dlib/licenses/Boost v1.0
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+Boost Software License - Version 1.0 - August 17th, 2003
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person or organization
+obtaining a copy of the software and accompanying documentation covered by
+this license (the "Software") to use, reproduce, display, distribute,
+execute, and transmit the Software, and to prepare derivative works of the
+Software, and to permit third-parties to whom the Software is furnished to
+do so, all subject to the following:
+
+The copyright notices in the Software and this entire statement, including
+the above license grant, this restriction and the following disclaimer,
+must be included in all copies of the Software, in whole or in part, and
+all derivative works of the Software, unless such copies or derivative
+works are solely in the form of machine-executable object code generated by
+a source language processor.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR
+IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY,
+FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, TITLE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT
+SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS OR ANYONE DISTRIBUTING THE SOFTWARE BE LIABLE
+FOR ANY DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE,
+ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
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