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+SUMMARY = "Download, build, install, upgrade, and uninstall Python packages"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://packages.python.org/setuptools"
+SECTION = "devel/python"
+LICENSE = "PSF"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://setup.py;beginline=78;endline=78;md5=8a314270dd7a8dbca741775415f1716e"
+
+SRCNAME = "setuptools"
+DEPENDS += "python3"
+DEPENDS_class-native += "python3-native"
+
+SRC_URI = " \
+  http://pypi.python.org/packages/source/s/${SRCNAME}/${SRCNAME}-${PV}.tar.gz \
+"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "52b4e48939ef311d7204f8fe940764f4"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0994a58df27ea5dc523782a601357a2198b7493dcc99a30d51827a23585b5b1d"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/${SRCNAME}-${PV}"
+
+inherit distutils3
+
+DISTUTILS_INSTALL_ARGS += "--install-lib=${D}${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/site-packages"
+
+do_install_prepend() {
+    install -d ${D}/${libdir}/${PYTHON_DIR}/site-packages
+}
+#
+#  The installer puts the wrong path in the setuptools.pth file.  Correct it.
+#
+do_install_append() {
+    rm ${D}${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/setuptools.pth
+    mv ${D}${bindir}/easy_install ${D}${bindir}/easy3_install
+    echo "./${SRCNAME}-${PV}-py${PYTHON_BASEVERSION}.egg" > ${D}${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/setuptools.pth
+}
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "\
+  python3-distutils \
+  python3-compression \
+"
+RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-target = "\
+  python3-ctypes \
+  python3-distutils \
+  python3-email \
+  python3-importlib \
+  python3-numbers \
+  python3-compression \
+  python3-shell \
+  python3-subprocess \
+  python3-textutils \
+  python3-pkgutil \
+  python3-threading \
+  python3-misc \
+  python3-unittest \
+  python3-xml \
+"
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"