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diff --git a/templates/font-util-runstuff-before-build.sh b/templates/font-util-runstuff-before-build.sh
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+#
+# Replace perl path in bdftrunace.pl before installing.
+#
+
+. $PKGFS_TMPLHELPDIR/perl-replace-path.sh
+perl_transform_file $wrksrc/bdftruncate.pl
diff --git a/templates/font-util.tmpl b/templates/font-util.tmpl
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+# Template build file for 'font-util'.
+pkgname=font-util
+version=1.0.1
+extract_sufx=".tar.bz2"
+url=http://xorg.freedesktop.org/releases/individual/font
+build_style=gnu_configure
+short_desc="Tools for truncating and subseting of ISO10646-1 BDF fonts"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+checksum=a9c758164ebc1da1a743fa73b68fae0fc5c215cc
+long_desc="
+ The font-util package provides ucs2any and bdftruncate tools, for
+ generating  BDF fonts containing subsets of ISO 10646-1 code-points
+ and generating truncated BDF font from ISO 10646-1-encoded BDF
+ font. It also provides mapping-files (character set tables)
+ and the fontutil pkg-config and autoconf macro files."
+
+# Transform bdftruncate.pl with correct path.
+run_stuff_before="build"
+run_stuff_before_build_file="$pkgname-runstuff-before-build.sh"