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+# Contributor: Leonardo Arena <rnalrd@gmail.com>
+# Maintainer:  Leonardo Arena <rnalrd@gmail.com>
+pkgname=perl-io-compress
+_realname=IO-Compress
+pkgver=2.024
+pkgrel=0
+pkgdesc="Perl compression library"
+url="http://search.cpan.org/~pmqs/IO-Compress-2.024/"
+license="GPL PerlArtistic"
+depends="perl"
+makedepends="perl-dev"
+install=
+subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
+source="http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/P/PM/PMQS/${_realname}-${pkgver}.tar.gz"
+
+_builddir="$srcdir/$_realname-$pkgver"
+
+build() {
+	cd $_builddir
+	PERL_MM_USE_DEFAULT=1 perl Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=vendor || return 1
+	make || return 1
+}
+
+package() {
+	cd $_builddir
+	make DESTDIR="$pkgdir" install
+	# creates file collision among perl modules
+	find "$pkgdir" -name perllocal.pod -delete
+}
+
+md5sums="bbcdf2dff018424d5668108f5248a9dc  IO-Compress-2.024.tar.gz"