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+# Template file for 'ffcall'
+
+pkgname="ffcall"
+version="1.10"
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+short_desc="Libraries to build foreign function call interfaces in embedded interpreters"
+maintainer="Martin Riese <grauehaare@gmx.de>"
+license="GPL3"
+homepage="http://www.gnu.org/software/libffcall"
+distfiles="http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/ffcall-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum="6f1b5b8fc84b2c0051637fb1e4e4f8b975f5f98bff8fe053c1992347baa4983d"
+
+# won't work with parallel_build so just turn it off (thanks to JuanRP for the Hint)
+disable_parallel_build=yes
+
+do_install() {
+	vmkdir usr/share/man
+	vmkdir usr/share/doc/ffcall
+	make DESTDIR=${DESTDIR} htmldir=/usr/share/doc/ffcall install
+}
+