diff --git a/sys-libs/cygwin-crypt/Manifest b/sys-libs/cygwin-crypt/Manifest
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+DIST cygwin-crypt-1.4.tar.bz2 4446 SHA256 26767faae5dab6a8e4103df0d41cd2b07cda97c48a31dfab73949b4df198818b SHA512 1ecc4256730f13161a651cfdf71b27c1042e6f56fb859943426c371d4b37b8b2bd6ea768f86e45f7b8cf3478e97ff9578b79e5c37178c8794ff9b87799f2cab3 WHIRLPOOL def38d196a7cdbcc2fcb307b5aaf45e76a703fb4557475f157f00eb63ca693e02f126f101552a424abb3a19bb8e342c777747b443295551fac637716ea5482a3
diff --git a/sys-libs/cygwin-crypt/cygwin-crypt-1.4.ebuild b/sys-libs/cygwin-crypt/cygwin-crypt-1.4.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+
+inherit toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="Cygwin Encryption/Decryption utility and library"
+HOMEPAGE="https://sourceware.org/cygwin-apps/"
+# Upstream provides the git repo only, so we do:
+#  git clone git://cygwin.com/git/cygwin-apps/crypt.git
+#  cd crypt
+#  git archive -o cygwin-crypt-${PV}.tar --prefix=cygwin-crypt-${PV}/ crypt-${PV}-release
+#  bzip2 cygwin-crypt-${PV}.tar
+SRC_URI="mirror://gentoo/${P}.tar.bz2"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2+"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~x64-cygwin ~x86-cygwin"
+IUSE=""
+
+DEPEND=""
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+mymake() {
+	emake \
+		CC="$(tc-getCC)" \
+		AR="$(tc-getAR)" \
+		CFLAGS="${CFLAGS}" \
+		prefix="${EPREFIX}/usr" \
+		docdir="${EPREFIX}/share/doc/${P}" \
+		"$@"
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	mymake
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	mymake install DESTDIR="${D}"
+}
diff --git a/sys-libs/cygwin-crypt/metadata.xml b/sys-libs/cygwin-crypt/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer>
+		<email>haubi@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Michael Haubenwallner</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<longdescription lang="en">
+This packages provides a library which exports the functions crypt(3),
+encrypt(3), and setkey(3).  The created passwords are 56 bit DES
+encrypted and are 100% identical to those created by the Linux crypt(3).
+	</longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>