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+SUMMARY = "Multipurpose relay for bidirectional data transfer"
+DESCRIPTION = "Socat is a relay for bidirectional data \
+transfer between two independent data channels."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/"
+
+SECTION = "console/network"
+
+DEPENDS = "openssl readline"
+
+LICENSE = "GPL-2.0-with-OpenSSL-exception"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263 \
+                    file://README;beginline=257;endline=287;md5=338c05eadd013872abb1d6e198e10a3f"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://www.dest-unreach.org/socat/download/socat-${PV}.tar.bz2 \
+           file://0001-define-NETDB_INTERNAL-to-1-if-not-available.patch \
+"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "b2a032a47b8b89a18485697fa975154f"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "0dd63ffe498168a4aac41d307594c5076ff307aa0ac04b141f8f1cec6594d04a"
+
+inherit autotools
+
+EXTRA_AUTORECONF += "--exclude=autoheader"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF += "ac_cv_have_z_modifier=yes \
+                 ac_cv_header_bsd_libutil_h=no \
+                 sc_cv_termios_ispeed=no \
+                 ${TERMBITS_SHIFTS} \
+"
+
+TERMBITS_SHIFTS ?= "sc_cv_sys_crdly_shift=9 \
+                    sc_cv_sys_tabdly_shift=11 \
+                    sc_cv_sys_csize_shift=4"
+
+TERMBITS_SHIFTS_powerpc = "sc_cv_sys_crdly_shift=12 \
+                           sc_cv_sys_tabdly_shift=10 \
+                           sc_cv_sys_csize_shift=8"
+
+TERMBITS_SHIFTS_powerpc64 = "sc_cv_sys_crdly_shift=12 \
+                             sc_cv_sys_tabdly_shift=10 \
+                             sc_cv_sys_csize_shift=8"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG_class-target ??= "tcp-wrappers"
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
+PACKAGECONFIG[tcp-wrappers] = "--enable-libwrap,--disable-libwrap,tcp-wrappers"
+
+do_install_prepend () {
+    mkdir -p ${D}${bindir}
+    install -d ${D}${bindir} ${D}${mandir}/man1
+}
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"