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+DESCRIPTION="libpcre - Perl Compatible Regular Expressions"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.xpcre.org/" 
+SRC_URI="ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-8.02.tar.bz2"
+CHECKSUM_MD5="27948c1b5f5c1eabc23cba1ebe4c316f"
+REVISION="1"
+STATUS_HAIKU="stable"
+DEPEND=""
+BUILD {
+	cd pcre-8.02
+	libtoolize --force --copy
+	aclocal
+	autoconf
+	automake
+	./configure --prefix=/boot/common --enable-utf8 --enable-unicode-properties --with-pic
+	make
+	make check
+}
+
+INSTALL {
+	cd pcre-8.02
+	make install
+}