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+# Copyright 1999-2019 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
+MY_PV=$(ver_rs 3 "")
+
+DESCRIPTION="A 100% compatible, enhanced implementation of the make alternative Jam"
+HOMEPAGE="http://freetype.sourceforge.net/jam/index.html"
+SRC_URI="http://david.freetype.org/jam/ftjam-${MY_PV}.tar.bz2"
+
+LICENSE="perforce GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~arm64 ~hppa ~ppc ~ppc64 ~sparc ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos"
+
+BDEPEND="sys-devel/bison"
+
+S=${WORKDIR}/${PN}-${MY_PV}
+
+DOCS=( README README.ORG CHANGES RELNOTES )
+HTML_DOCS=( Jam.html Jambase.html Jamfile.html )
+
+PATCHES=(
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.5.3-nostrip.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.5.3-i-hate-yacc.patch
+	"${FILESDIR}"/${PN}-2.5.3-false-flags.patch
+)
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	tc-export CC
+}