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+SUMMARY = "Documentation system for on-line information and printed output"
+DESCRIPTION = "Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both \
+online information and printed output from a single source file. The \
+GNU Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/"
+SECTION = "console/utils"
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f"
+
+PROVIDES_append_class-native = " texinfo-4.8-replacement-native"
+
+DEPENDS = "zlib ncurses texinfo-4.8-replacement-native"
+DEPENDS_class-native = "zlib-native ncurses-native"
+
+TARGET_PATCH = "file://use_host_makedoc.patch \
+           file://using-native-makeinfo.patch \
+"
+TARGET_PATCH_class-native = ""
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/texinfo/${BP}.tar.gz \
+           file://check-locale-h.patch \
+           file://do-compile-native-tools.patch \
+           ${TARGET_PATCH} \
+          "
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "4e9a1a591ed236003d0d4b008bf07eef"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "1f3cdeebe65fdf510f55d765ab1031b54416aa5bc2635b6a54ef9bcb2367c917"
+
+tex_texinfo = "texmf/tex/texinfo"
+
+inherit gettext autotools
+
+do_install_append() {
+	mkdir -p ${D}${datadir}/${tex_texinfo}
+	install -p -m644 ${S}/doc/texinfo.tex ${S}/doc/txi-??.tex ${D}${datadir}/${tex_texinfo}
+}
+
+do_install_append_class-native() {
+	install -m 755 info/makedoc ${D}${bindir}
+	install -m 755 makeinfo/makeinfo ${D}${bindir}
+}
+
+PACKAGES += "info info-doc"
+
+FILES_info = "${bindir}/info ${bindir}/infokey ${bindir}/install-info"
+FILES_info-doc = "${infodir}/info.info ${infodir}/dir ${infodir}/info-*.info \
+                  ${mandir}/man1/info.1* ${mandir}/man5/info.5* \
+                  ${mandir}/man1/infokey.1* ${mandir}/man1/install-info.1*"
+
+FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/makeinfo ${bindir}/texi* ${bindir}/pdftexi2dvi ${bindir}/pod2texi ${datadir}/texinfo"
+FILES_${PN}-doc = "${infodir}/texinfo* \
+                   ${datadir}/${tex_texinfo} \
+                   ${mandir}/man1 ${mandir}/man5"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"