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+require automake.inc
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=751419260aa954499f7abaabaa882bbe"
+DEPENDS_class-native = "autoconf-native"
+
+NAMEVER = "${@oe.utils.trim_version("${PV}", 2)}"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "\
+    autoconf \
+    perl \
+    perl-module-bytes \
+    perl-module-data-dumper \
+    perl-module-strict \
+    perl-module-text-parsewords \
+    perl-module-thread-queue \
+    perl-module-threads \
+    perl-module-vars "
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN}_class-native = "autoconf-native perl-native-runtime"
+
+SRC_URI += " file://python-libdir.patch \
+            file://py-compile-compile-only-optimized-byte-code.patch \
+            file://buildtest.patch"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "716946a105ca228ab545fc37a70df3a3"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7946e945a96e28152ba5a6beb0625ca715c6e32ac55f2e353ef54def0c8ed924"
+
+CACHED_CONFIGUREVARS += "ac_cv_path_PERL=${USRBINPATH}/perl"
+
+do_install_append () {
+    install -d ${D}${datadir}
+}
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"