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+SUMMARY = "Recipe for enabling hostboot-debug-tools"
+DESCRIPTION = "Support to enable running hostboot-debug-tools"
+LICENSE = "Apache-2.0"
+PR = "r1"
+
+inherit allarch
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = " \
+    perl perl-module-pod-text perl-module-lib \
+    perl-module-constant \
+    perl-module-errno perl-module-fcntl \
+    perl-module-file-basename perl-module-file-copy \
+    perl-module-file-find perl-module-file-glob \
+    perl-module-file-path perl-module-file-spec \
+    perl-module-file-temp perl-module-getopt-long \
+    perl-module-re perl-module-text-wrap \
+    perl-module-posix perl-module-bigint \
+    perl-module-integer \
+    "
+
+ALLOW_EMPTY_${PN} = "1"