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+SUMMARY = "Graphics abstraction library for the Linux Framebuffer Device"
+DESCRIPTION = "DirectFB is a thin library that provides developers \
+with hardware graphics acceleration, input device handling and \
+abstraction, an integrated windowing system with support for \
+translucent windows and multiple display layers on top of the \
+Linux framebuffer device."
+SECTION = "libs"
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=dcf3c825659e82539645da41a7908589"
+
+HOMEPAGE = "http://directfb.org"
+DEPENDS = "jpeg libpng freetype zlib tslib sysfsutils"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://www.directfb.org/downloads/Core/DirectFB-1.7/DirectFB-${PV}.tar.gz \
+           file://configurefix.patch \
+           file://fusion.patch \
+           file://bashism.patch \
+           file://0001-gfx-direct-Aboid-usng-VLAs-and-printf-formats.patch \
+          "
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/DirectFB-${PV}"
+
+LDFLAGS_append =" -lts -lm"
+
+BINCONFIG = "${bindir}/directfb-config"
+
+inherit autotools binconfig-disabled pkgconfig
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
+PACKAGECONFIG[jpeg2000] = "--enable-jpeg2000,--disable-jpeg2000,jasper"
+PACKAGECONFIG[drmkms] = "--enable-drmkms,--disable-drmkms,libdrm"
+PACKAGECONFIG[tiff] = "--enable-tiff,--disable-tiff,tiff"
+PACKAGECONFIG[webp] = "--enable-webp,--disable-webp,libwebp"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = "\
+  --with-gfxdrivers=none \
+  --enable-freetype=yes \
+  --enable-zlib \
+  --disable-imlib2 \
+  --disable-mesa \
+  --disable-sdl \
+  --disable-vnc \
+  --disable-x11 \
+"
+
+#Once -fno-omit-frame-pointer option of gcc is added into TARGET_CLFAGS as default
+#this will cause directfb build failure on x86 arch, so filter out it.
+TARGET_CFLAGS_remove_x86 = "-fno-omit-frame-pointer"
+
+#PACKAGES_DYNAMIC += "^directfb-inputdrivers-.*"
+#
+#python populate_packages_prepend () {
+#    inputdrivers_libdir = d.expand('${libdir}/directfb-${RV}/inputdrivers')
+#    do_split_packages(d, inputdrivers_libdir, '*.so$', 'directfb-inputdrivers-%s', 'Directfb plugin for %s')
+#}
+
+# NOTE: monolithic packaging for now, should improve that eventually
+
+
+
+FILES_${PN}-dbg += "\
+  ${libdir}/directfb-${RV}/*/*/.debug/*.so \
+  ${libdir}/directfb-${RV}/*/.debug/*.so \
+"
+
+FILES_${PN}-dev += "\
+  ${bindir}/directfb-config \
+  ${libdir}/directfb-${RV}/systems/*.la \
+  ${libdir}/directfb-${RV}/inputdrivers/*.la \
+  ${libdir}/directfb-${RV}/interfaces/*/*.la \
+  ${libdir}/directfb-${RV}/wm/*.la \
+"
+
+FILES_${PN} += "\
+  ${libdir}/directfb-${RV}/systems/*.so \
+  ${libdir}/directfb-${RV}/inputdrivers/*.so \
+  ${libdir}/directfb-${RV}/interfaces/*/*.so \
+  ${libdir}/directfb-${RV}/wm/*.so \
+  ${datadir}/directfb-${PV} \
+"