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+SUMMARY = "C#-like programming language for easing GObject programming"
+DESCRIPTION = "Vala is a C#-like language dedicated to ease GObject programming. \
+Vala compiles to plain C and has no runtime environment nor penalities whatsoever."
+SECTION = "devel"
+DEPENDS = "bison-native flex-native libxslt-native glib-2.0"
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://vala-project.org"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=fbc093901857fcd118f065f900982c24"
+
+SHRT_VER = "${@d.getVar('PV',1).split('.')[0]}.${@d.getVar('PV',1).split('.')[1]}"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/${BPN}/${SHRT_VER}/${BP}.tar.xz"
+inherit autotools pkgconfig
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${datadir}/${BPN}-${SHRT_VER}/vapi ${libdir}/${BPN}-${SHRT_VER}/"
+FILES_${PN}-doc += "${datadir}/devhelp"
+FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/${BPN}-${SHRT_VER}/.debug"