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+SUMMARY = "A library for text mode user interfaces"
+
+DESCRIPTION = "Newt is a programming library for color text mode, widget based user \
+interfaces.  Newt can be used to add stacked windows, entry widgets, \
+checkboxes, radio buttons, labels, plain text fields, scrollbars, \
+etc., to text mode user interfaces.  This package also contains the \
+shared library needed by programs built with newt, as well as a \
+/usr/bin/dialog replacement called whiptail.  Newt is based on the \
+slang library."
+
+HOMEPAGE = "https://fedorahosted.org/newt/"
+SECTION = "libs"
+
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=5f30f0716dfdd0d91eb439ebec522ec2"
+
+# slang needs to be >= 2.2
+DEPENDS = "slang popt"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://fedorahosted.org/releases/n/e/newt/newt-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://remove_slang_include.patch \
+           file://fix_SHAREDDIR.patch \
+           file://cross_ar.patch \
+"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "685721bee1a318570704b19dcf31d268"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "771b0e634ede56ae6a6acd910728bb5832ac13ddb0d1d27919d2498dab70c91e"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/newt-${PV}"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--without-tcl --without-python"
+
+inherit autotools-brokensep
+
+CLEANBROKEN = "1"
+
+export STAGING_INCDIR
+export STAGING_LIBDIR
+
+export BUILD_SYS
+export HOST_SYS
+
+PACKAGES_prepend = "whiptail "
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    sh autogen.sh
+}
+
+do_compile_prepend() {
+    # Make sure the recompile is OK
+    rm -f ${B}/.depend
+}
+
+FILES_whiptail = "${bindir}/whiptail"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"