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+DESCRIPTION = "GNU gperf is a perfect hash function generator"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.gnu.org/software/gperf"
+SUMMARY  = "Generate a perfect hash function from a set of keywords"
+LICENSE  = "GPLv3+"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=d32239bcb673463ab874e80d47fae504 \
+                    file://src/main.cc;beginline=8;endline=19;md5=dec8f611845d047387ed56b5b85fa99b"
+
+SRC_URI  = "${GNU_MIRROR}/gperf/gperf-${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+inherit autotools
+
+# autoreconf couldn't find acinclude.m4 when stepping into subdirectory. Instead of
+# duplicating acinclude.m4 in every subdirectory, use absolute include path to aclocal
+EXTRA_AUTORECONF += " -I ${S}"
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+        if [ ! -e ${S}/acinclude.m4 ]; then
+                cat ${S}/aclocal.m4 > ${S}/acinclude.m4
+        fi
+}
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"