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+SUMMARY = "A low level cryptographic library"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/nettle/"
+SECTION = "libs"
+
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.LIB;md5=2d5025d4aa3495befef8f17206a5b0a1 \
+                    file://serpent-decrypt.c;beginline=53;endline=67;md5=bcfd4745d53ca57f82907089898e390d \
+                    file://serpent-set-key.c;beginline=56;endline=70;md5=bcfd4745d53ca57f82907089898e390d"
+
+DEPENDS += "gmp"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://www.lysator.liu.se/~nisse/archive/${BP}.tar.gz \
+           file://Add-target-to-only-build-tests-not-run-them.patch \
+           file://run-ptest \
+           "
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "003d5147911317931dd453520eb234a5"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "bc71ebd43435537d767799e414fce88e521b7278d48c860651216e1fc6555b40"
+
+EXTRA_OECONF = "--disable-openssl"
+
+inherit autotools ptest
+
+do_configure_prepend() {
+       if [ ! -e ${S}/acinclude.m4 -a -e ${S}/aclocal.m4 ]; then
+               cp ${S}/aclocal.m4 ${S}/acinclude.m4
+       fi
+}
+
+do_compile_ptest() {
+        oe_runmake buildtest
+}
+
+do_install_ptest() {
+        install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testsuite/
+        install ${S}/testsuite/gold-bug.txt ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testsuite/
+        install ${S}/testsuite/*-test ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testsuite/
+        # tools can be found in PATH, not in ../tools/
+        sed -i -e 's|../tools/||' ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testsuite/*-test
+        install ${B}/testsuite/*-test ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/testsuite/
+}
+
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"