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+SUMMARY = "IPMI (Intelligent Platform Management Interface) library and tools"
+DESCRIPTION = "OpenIPMI is an effort to create a full-function IPMI system, \
+to allow full access to all IPMI information on a server \
+and to abstract it to a level that will make it easy to use"
+
+HOMEPAGE = "http://openipmi.sourceforge.net"
+
+DEPENDS = " \
+    glib-2.0 \
+    ncurses \
+    net-snmp \
+    openssl \
+    popt \
+    python \
+    swig-native \
+    "
+
+LICENSE = "GPLv2 & LGPLv2.1 & BSD"
+
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=94d55d512a9ba36caa9b7df079bae19f \
+                    file://COPYING.LIB;md5=d8045f3b8f929c1cb29a1e3fd737b499 \
+                    file://COPYING.BSD;md5=4b318d4160eb69c8ee53452feb1b4cdf \
+                    "
+
+SRC_URI = "${SOURCEFORGE_MIRROR}/openipmi/OpenIPMI-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://fix-symlink-install-error-in-cmdlang.patch \
+           file://openipmi-no-openipmigui-man.patch \
+           file://openipmi-remove-host-path-from-la_LDFLAGS.patch \
+           file://ipmi-init-fix-the-arguments.patch \
+           file://do-not-install-pyc-and-pyo.patch \
+           file://include_sys_types.patch \
+           file://openipmi-helper \
+           file://ipmi.service \
+           file://0001-lanserv-Rename-struct-parameter-printf-for-namespace.patch \
+           "
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/OpenIPMI-${PV}"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "58f9542cbfcb5fe250b77cf88345e1ec"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "bca39a27071278a8b74610181ede8df51e155e5e9031bc8eaa3699d1720292b4"
+
+inherit autotools-brokensep pkgconfig pythonnative perlnative update-rc.d systemd
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-static \
+                --with-perl='${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/perl-native/perl' \
+                --with-python='${STAGING_BINDIR_NATIVE}/python-native/python' \
+                --with-pythoninstall='${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}' \
+                --with-glibver=2.0"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= "gdbm"
+PACKAGECONFIG[gdbm] = "ac_cv_header_gdbm_h=yes,ac_cv_header_gdbm_h=no,gdbm,"
+
+PACKAGES += "${PN}-perl ${PN}-python"
+
+FILES_${PN}-perl = " \
+    ${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/OpenIPMI.pm \
+    ${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/OpenIPMI/OpenIPMI.so \
+    "
+
+FILES_${PN}-python = "${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}"
+
+FILES_${PN}-dbg += " \
+    ${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/*/auto/OpenIPMI/.debug \
+    ${PYTHON_SITEPACKAGES_DIR}/.debug \
+    "
+
+do_configure () {
+
+    # Let's perform regular configuration first then handle perl issues.
+    autotools_do_configure
+
+    perl_ver=`perl -V:version | cut -d\' -f 2`
+    
+    # Force openipmi perl bindings to be compiled using perl-native instead of
+    # the host's perl. Set the proper install directory for the resulting
+    # openipmi.pm and openipmi.so
+    for i in ${S}/swig/Makefile ${S}/swig/perl/Makefile; do
+        echo "SAL: i = $i"
+        echo "SAL: STAGING_INCDIR_NATIVE = $STAGING_INCDIR_NATIVE"
+        echo "SAL: libdir = $libdir"
+        sed -i -e "/^PERL_CFLAGS/s:-I/usr/local/include:-I${STAGING_INCDIR_NATIVE}:g" $i
+        sed -i -e "/^PERL_INSTALL_DIR/s:^PERL_INSTALL_DIR = .*:PERL_INSTALL_DIR = ${libdir}/perl/vendor_perl/$perl_ver:g" $i
+    done
+}
+
+do_install_append () {
+    echo "SAL: D = $D"
+    echo "SAL: libdir = $libdir"
+    install -m 0755 -d ${D}${sysconfdir}/sysconfig ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d
+    install -m 0755 ${S}/ipmi.init ${D}${sysconfdir}/init.d/ipmi
+    install -m 0644 ${S}/ipmi.sysconf ${D}${sysconfdir}/sysconfig/ipmi
+    # SAL: mv: cannot stat `/localdisk/loadbuild/slittle1/workspace/cgts_test_build/bitbake_build/tmp/work/x86_64-wrs-linux/openipmi-2.0.19-r4/image/usr/lib64/perl5': No such file or directory
+    # SAL: real path to perl is /localdisk/loadbuild/slittle1/workspace/cgts_test_build/bitbake_build/tmp/work/x86_64-wrs-linux/perl-5.14.2-r8.3/package/usr/lib64/perl5 and it is a symlink to perl so no need to mv.
+    if [ -d ${D}${libdir}/perl5 ]
+    then
+        mv ${D}${libdir}/perl5 ${D}${libdir}/perl
+    fi
+ 
+    # for systemd
+    install -d ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
+    install -m 0664 ${WORKDIR}/ipmi.service ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system
+    sed -i -e "s,@LIBEXECDIR@,${libexecdir},g" ${D}${systemd_unitdir}/system/ipmi.service
+    install -d ${D}${libexecdir}
+    install -m 0755 ${WORKDIR}/openipmi-helper ${D}${libexecdir}
+}
+
+INITSCRIPT_NAME = "ipmi"
+INITSCRIPT_PARAMS = "start 30 . stop 70 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 ."
+
+SYSTEMD_SERVICE_${PN} = "ipmi.service"
+SYSTEMD_AUTO_ENABLE = "disable"