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+SUMMARY="Gophernicus is a modern full-featured gopher server"
+DESCRIPTION="
+	Gophernicus is a modern full-featured (and hopefully) secure gopher \
+	daemon for inetd. It is licensed under the BSD license.
+"
+COPYRIGHT="2009-2014 Kim Holviala"
+LICENSE="BSD (2-clause)"
+HOMEPAGE="gopher://gophernicus.org/1/software/gophernicus/"
+SRC_URI="http://gophernicus.org/software/gophernicus/gophernicus-1.5.tar.gz"
+CHECKSUM_SHA256="eeea761604a1b1277e74a673d0250f10024f99ced0889712e099093a651c232a"
+REVISION="1"
+
+#TODO:enable multithreading for the devel package!
+
+ARCHITECTURES="x86_gcc2 x86 ?x86_64"
+
+PROVIDES="
+	gophernicus$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	cmd:in.gophernicus$secondaryArchSuffix = $portVersion
+	"
+
+REQUIRES="
+	haiku$secondaryArchSuffix >= $haikuVersion
+	"
+
+BUILD_REQUIRES="
+	haiku${secondaryArchSuffix}_devel >= $haikuVersion
+	"
+
+BUILD_PREREQUIRES="
+	cmd:awk
+	cmd:gcc$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:ld$secondaryArchSuffix
+	cmd:make
+	cmd:sed
+	"
+
+BUILD()
+{
+	make DESTDIR=$prefix SBINDIR=$binDir DOCDIR=$docDir/gophernicus \
+		NET_SRV=$settingsDir/network/services
+}
+
+INSTALL()
+{
+	mkdir -p $binDir
+	mkdir -p $docDir
+
+	make DESTDIR=$prefix SBINDIR=$binDir DOCDIR=$docDir/gophernicus \
+		NET_SRV=$settingsDir/network/services \
+		install-files install-docs install-done
+		#TODO: add as a post_install ?
+		#install-root
+		#TODO: add code to enable it with net_server
+		#install-haiku
+}