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+SUMMARY = "An interpreter of object-oriented scripting language"
+DESCRIPTION = "Ruby is an interpreted scripting language for quick \
+and easy object-oriented programming. It has many features to process \
+text files and to do system management tasks (as in Perl). \
+It is simple, straight-forward, and extensible. \
+"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.ruby-lang.org/"
+SECTION = "devel/ruby"
+LICENSE = "Ruby | BSD | GPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "\
+    file://COPYING;md5=837b32593517ae48b9c3b5c87a5d288c \
+    file://BSDL;md5=19aaf65c88a40b508d17ae4be539c4b5\
+    file://GPL;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263\
+    file://LEGAL;md5=c440adb575ba4e6e2344c2630b6a5584\
+"
+
+DEPENDS = "ruby-native zlib openssl tcl libyaml db gdbm readline"
+DEPENDS_class-native = "libyaml-native"
+
+SHRT_VER = "${@oe.utils.trim_version("${PV}", 2)}"
+SRC_URI = "http://cache.ruby-lang.org/pub/ruby/${SHRT_VER}/ruby-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://extmk.patch \
+"
+
+inherit autotools
+
+
+# This snippet lets compiled extensions which rely on external libraries,
+# such as zlib, compile properly.  If we don't do this, then when extmk.rb
+# runs, it uses the native libraries instead of the target libraries, and so
+# none of the linking operations succeed -- which makes extconf.rb think
+# that the libraries aren't available and hence that the extension can't be
+# built.
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+    sed -i "s#%%TARGET_CFLAGS%%#$TARGET_CFLAGS#; s#%%TARGET_LDFLAGS%%#$TARGET_LDFLAGS#" ${S}/common.mk
+    rm -rf ${S}/ruby/
+}