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-# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Id$
-
-EAPI=5
-USE_RUBY="ruby20"
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_TASK_DOC="docs"
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_EXTRADOC="History.rdoc README.rdoc"
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_DOCDIR="doc"
-
-RUBY_FAKEGEM_TASK_TEST="spec"
-
-inherit ruby-fakegem eutils
-
-DESCRIPTION="A Ruby implementation of Markdown"
-HOMEPAGE="http://www.deveiate.org/projects/BlueCloth"
-
-LICENSE="BSD"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 arm hppa ia64 ppc ppc64 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~ppc-macos ~x86-macos ~x86-solaris"
-IUSE="test"
-
-DEPEND+=" doc? ( dev-lang/perl )"
-
-ruby_add_bdepend "
-	dev-ruby/hoe
-	dev-ruby/rake-compiler
-	test? (
-		dev-ruby/rspec:2
-		dev-ruby/diff-lcs
-		dev-ruby/tidy-ext
-	)"
-
-all_ruby_prepare() {
-	# for Ruby 1.9.2 compatibility
-	sed -i -e '1i $: << "."' Rakefile || die
-}
-
-all_ruby_compile() {
-	rake man/man1/bluecloth.1 || die
-
-	all_fakegem_compile
-}
-
-each_ruby_compile() {
-	${RUBY} -S rake compile || die "extension build failed"
-}
-
-all_ruby_install() {
-	doman man/man1/bluecloth.1
-
-	all_fakegem_install
-}