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+SUMMARY = "Apache Thrift"
+DESCRIPTION =  "A software framework, for scalable cross-language services development"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://thrift.apache.org/"
+
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=c40a383cb3f747e0c7abbf1482f194f0 \
+                    file://NOTICE;md5=2659b43daca219f99a2f2626ea128f73"
+
+DEPENDS = "thrift-native boost flex-native bison-native openssl zlib"
+
+SRC_URI = "https://www-eu.apache.org/dist/thrift//${PV}/${BPN}-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://0001-DefineInstallationPaths.cmake-Define-libdir-in-terms.patch \
+          "
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f460b5c1ca30d8918ff95ea3eb6291b3951cf518553566088f3f2be8981f6209"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
+
+inherit pkgconfig cmake python3native
+
+export STAGING_INCDIR
+export STAGING_LIBDIR
+export BUILD_SYS
+export HOST_SYS
+
+EXTRA_OECMAKE = " \
+    -DBUILD_LIBRARIES=ON \
+    -DBUILD_SHARED_LIBS=ON \
+    -DBUILD_COMPILER=ON \
+    -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF \
+    -DBUILD_TUTORIALS=OFF \
+    -DWITH_AS3=OFF \
+    -DWITH_CPP=ON \
+    -DWITH_JAVA=OFF \
+    -DWITH_OPENSSL=ON \
+    -DWITH_QT5=OFF \
+    -DWITH_ZLIB=ON \
+"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "glib libevent"
+PACKAGECONFIG[glib] = "-DWITH_C_GLIB=ON,-DWITH_C_GLIB=OFF,glib-2.0"
+PACKAGECONFIG[libevent] = "-DWITH_LIBEVENT=ON,-DWITH_LIBEVENT=OFF,libevent"
+PACKAGECONFIG[javascript] = "-DWITH_JAVASCRIPT=ON,-DWITH_JAVASCRIPT=OFF,nodejs"
+PACKAGECONFIG[nodejs] = "-DWITH_NODEJS=ON,-DWITH_NODEJS=OFF,nodejs"
+PACKAGECONFIG[python] = "-DWITH_PYTHON=ON,-DWITH_PYTHON=OFF,python"
+
+do_install:append () {
+    ln -sf thrift ${D}/${bindir}/thrift-compiler
+}
+
+LEAD_SONAME = "libthrift.so.${PV}"
+
+# thrift packages
+PACKAGE_BEFORE_PN = "${PN}-compiler lib${BPN} lib${BPN}z lib${BPN}nb lib${BPN}-c-glib"
+FILES:lib${BPN} = "${libdir}/libthrift.so.*"
+FILES:lib${BPN}z = "${libdir}/libthriftz.so.*"
+FILES:lib${BPN}nb = "${libdir}/libthriftnb.so.*"
+FILES:lib${BPN}-c-glib = "${libdir}/libthrift_c_glib.so.*"
+FILES:${PN}-compiler = "${bindir}/*"
+
+# The thrift packages just pulls in some default dependencies but is otherwise empty
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN} = "${PN}-compiler lib${BPN}"
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}:class-native = ""
+RRECOMMENDS:${PN}:class-nativesdk = ""