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+# Contributor: Carlo Landmeter <clandmeter at gmail>
+# Maintainer: Carlo Landmeter <clandmeter at gmail>
+pkgname=libmcrypt
+pkgver=2.5.8
+pkgrel=0
+pkgdesc="A library which provides a uniform interface to several symmetric encryption algorithms"
+url="http://mcrypt.sourceforge.net/"
+license="GPL"
+depends="uclibc"
+makedepends="libtool uclibc++-dev"
+install=
+subpackages="$pkgname-doc $pkgname-dev"
+source="http://downloads.sourceforge.net/mcrypt/${pkgname}-${pkgver}.tar.bz2"
+
+build() {
+	cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
+
+	./configure --prefix=/usr \
+		--mandir=/usr/share/man 
+	make || return 1
+	make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
+}
+
+md5sums="c4f491dd411a09e9de3b8702ea6f73eb  libmcrypt-2.5.8.tar.bz2"