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+# Template build file for 'ruby-1.8.7-p72'.
+pkgname=ruby-1.8.7-p72
+extract_sufx=".tar.bz2"
+url=ftp://ftp.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/1.8
+build_style=gnu_configure
+configure_args="--enable-pthread --enable-shared
+ --exec-prefix=$PKGFS_DESTDIR/$pkgname"
+short_desc="Ruby programming language"
+maintainer="Daniel Horecki <morr@morr.pl>"
+checksum=07bf0d6987ba111aed988093c569fb66ba54891b
+long_desc="
+ Ruby is the interpreted scripting language for quick and
+ easy object-oriented programming.  It has many features to
+ process text files and to do system management tasks (as in
+ Perl).  It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible."