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+#
+# Copyright (C) 2008-2012 OpenWrt.org
+#
+# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
+# See /LICENSE for more information.
+#
+
+include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
+
+PKG_NAME:=libconfig
+PKG_VERSION:=1.4.9
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
+
+PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig
+PKG_MD5SUM:=b6ee0ce2b3ef844bad7cac2803a90634
+
+PKG_FIXUP:=autoreconf
+PKG_INSTALL:=1
+
+PKG_MAINTAINER:=Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
+
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
+
+define Package/libconfig
+  SECTION:=libs
+  CATEGORY:=Libraries
+  TITLE:=Configuration File Library
+  URL:=http://www.hyperrealm.com/libconfig/
+endef
+
+define Package/libconfig/description
+ Libconfig is a simple library for manipulating structured configuration
+ files. This file format is more compact and more readable than XML. And
+ unlike XML, it is type-aware, so it is not necessary to do string
+ parsing in application code.
+
+ Libconfig is very compact -- just 38K for the stripped C shared
+ library (less than one-fourth the size of the expat XML parser library)
+ and 66K for the stripped C++ shared library. This makes it well-suited
+ for memory-constrained systems like handheld devices.
+endef
+
+CONFIGURE_ARGS += \
+	--enable-shared \
+	--disable-static \
+	--disable-cxx
+
+define Build/InstallDev
+	$(CP) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/* $(1)/
+endef
+
+define Package/libconfig/install
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/lib
+	$(CP) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/lib/libconfig.so* $(1)/usr/lib/
+endef
+
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,libconfig))