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+#
+# Copyright (C) 2006-2015 OpenWrt.org
+#
+# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
+# See /LICENSE for more information.
+#
+
+include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
+
+PKG_NAME:=giflib
+PKG_VERSION:=5.1.1
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
+
+PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.bz2
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=@SF/giflib
+PKG_MD5SUM:=1c39333192712788c6568c78a949f13e
+
+PKG_MAINTAINER:=Ted Hess <thess@kitschensync.net>
+
+PKG_LICENSE:=MIT
+PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=COPYING
+
+PKG_FIXUP:=autoreconf
+PKG_REMOVE_FILES:=autogen.sh aclocal.m4
+
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
+
+define Package/giflib
+  SECTION:=libs
+  CATEGORY:=Libraries
+  TITLE:=GIF libraries
+  URL:=http://sourceforge.net/projects/giflib
+endef
+
+define Package/giflib/description
+  giflib is a library for reading and writing gif images.
+  It is API and ABI compatible with libungif which was in wide use while
+  the LZW compression algorithm was patented.
+endef
+
+TARGET_CFLAGS += $(FPIC)
+CONFIGURE_ARGS += --enable-x11=no
+
+define Build/Compile
+	$(MAKE) -C $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)
+endef
+
+define Build/InstallDev
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/{lib,include}
+	$(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/lib/.libs/lib*so* $(1)/usr/lib
+	$(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/lib/.libs/libgif.a $(1)/usr/lib
+	$(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/lib/libgif.la $(1)/usr/lib
+	$(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/lib/*.h $(1)/usr/include/
+endef
+
+define Package/giflib/install
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/lib
+	$(CP) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/lib/.libs/lib*so* $(1)/usr/lib/
+endef
+
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,giflib))