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+SUMMARY = "Standard GNU compressor"
+DESCRIPTION = "GNU Gzip is a popular data compression program originally written by Jean-loup Gailly for the GNU \
+project. Mark Adler wrote the decompression part"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gzip/"
+SECTION = "console/utils"
+# change to GPLv3+ in 2007/07. Previous GPLv2 version is 1.3.12
+
+inherit autotools texinfo
+
+EXTRA_OEMAKE_class-target = "GREP=${base_bindir}/grep"
+
+do_install_append () {
+	# Rename and move files into /bin (FHS), which is typical place for gzip
+	install -d ${D}${base_bindir}
+	mv ${D}${bindir}/gunzip ${D}${base_bindir}/gunzip
+	mv ${D}${bindir}/gzip ${D}${base_bindir}/gzip
+	mv ${D}${bindir}/zcat ${D}${base_bindir}/zcat
+	mv ${D}${bindir}/uncompress ${D}${base_bindir}/uncompress
+}
+
+inherit update-alternatives
+
+ALTERNATIVE_PRIORITY = "100"
+ALTERNATIVE_${PN} = "gunzip gzip zcat"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[gunzip] = "${base_bindir}/gunzip"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[gzip] = "${base_bindir}/gzip"
+ALTERNATIVE_LINK_NAME[zcat] = "${base_bindir}/zcat"
+
+export CONFIG_SHELL="/bin/sh"