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+DESCRIPTION = "Package that provides access to GPIO and other IO\
+functions on the Broadcom BCM 2835 chip, allowing access to the\
+GPIO pins on the 26 pin IDE plug on the RPi board"
+SECTION = "base"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.open.com.au/mikem/bcm2835"
+AUTHOR = "Mike McCauley (mikem@open.com.au)"
+
+LICENSE = "GPLv2"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=b234ee4d69f5fce4486a80fdaf4a4263"
+
+COMPATIBLE_MACHINE = "raspberrypi"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://www.airspayce.com/mikem/bcm2835/bcm2835-${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "3a40c01ee7d81fbff80c54fbe1a351b5"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "fc6b0412525e6b7e85aeffec67e2d01a99fb906346620041e6684d59ea5517a7"
+
+inherit autotools
+
+do_compile_append() {
+    # Now compiling the examples provided by the package
+    mkdir -p ${B}/examples
+    for file in `ls ${S}/examples`; do
+        ${CC} ${S}/examples/${file}/${file}.c -o ${B}/examples/${file} -Bstatic -L${B}/src -lbcm2835 -I${S}/src
+    done
+}
+
+do_install_append() {
+    install -d ${D}/${libdir}/${BPN}
+    for file in ${B}/examples/*
+    do
+        install -m 0755 ${file} ${D}/${libdir}/${BPN}
+    done
+}
+
+PACKAGES += "${PN}-tests"
+
+FILES_${PN} = ""
+FILES_${PN}-tests = "${libdir}/${BPN}"
+FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/${BPN}/.debug"