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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{7,8,9,10} )
+inherit python-single-r1 autotools multilib-minimal
+
+DESCRIPTION="a library with the aim to simplify DNS programming in C"
+HOMEPAGE="http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/ldns/"
+SRC_URI="http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/downloads/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0/3"
+KEYWORDS="~alpha ~amd64 ~arm ~arm64 ~hppa ~ia64 ~m68k ~mips ~ppc ~ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 ~sparc ~x86 ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
+IUSE="+dane doc +ecdsa ed25519 ed448 gost python static-libs vim-syntax"
+
+# configure will die if ecdsa is enabled and ssl is not
+REQUIRED_USE="
+	python? ( ${PYTHON_REQUIRED_USE} )
+"
+
+RDEPEND="
+	python? ( ${PYTHON_DEPS} )
+	ecdsa? (
+		>=dev-libs/openssl-1.0.1e:0=[-bindist(-),${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	)
+	ed25519? (
+		>=dev-libs/openssl-1.1.0:0=[-bindist(-),${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	)
+	ed448? (
+		>=dev-libs/openssl-1.1.1:0=[-bindist(-),${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+	)
+	>=dev-libs/openssl-1.0.1e:0=[${MULTILIB_USEDEP}]
+"
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}
+	python? ( dev-lang/swig )
+	doc? ( app-doc/doxygen )
+"
+
+RESTRICT="test" # 1.6.9 has no test directory
+
+MULTILIB_CHOST_TOOLS=(
+	/usr/bin/ldns-config
+)
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	use python && python-single-r1_pkg_setup
+}
+
+multilib_src_configure() {
+	# >=openssl-1.1.0 required for dane-ta
+	if has_version "<dev-libs/openssl-1.1.0"; then
+		local dane_ta_usage="--disable-dane-ta-usage"
+	else
+		local dane_ta_usage=""
+	fi
+
+	ECONF_SOURCE=${S} \
+	econf \
+		$(use_enable static-libs static) \
+		$(use_enable gost) \
+		$(use_enable ecdsa) \
+		$(use_enable ed25519) \
+		$(use_enable ed448) \
+		$(use_enable dane) \
+		$(multilib_native_use_with python pyldns) \
+		$(multilib_native_use_with python pyldnsx) \
+		--with-ssl="${EPREFIX}"/usr \
+		--enable-sha2 \
+		--without-drill \
+		--without-examples \
+		${dane_ta_usage} \
+		--disable-rpath
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+	# remove non-existing dependency for target packaging/libldns.pc
+	sed -i 's,$(srcdir)/packaging/libldns.pc.in,,' "${S}"/Makefile.in || die 'could not patch Makefile.in'
+
+	# remove $(srcdir) from path for multilib build
+	sed -i 's,$(srcdir)/packaging/libldns.pc,packaging/libldns.pc,' "${S}"/Makefile.in || die 'could not patch Makefile.in'
+
+	# remove Libs.private, see bug #695672
+	sed -i '/^Libs.private:/d' "${S}"/packaging/libldns.pc.in || die 'could not patch libldns.pc.in'
+
+	# backport https://github.com/NLnetLabs/ldns/commit/bc9d017f6fd8b6b5d2ff6e4489a2931d0aab8184
+	sed -i 's/AC_SUBST(VERSION_INFO.*/AC_SUBST(VERSION_INFO, [5:0:2])/' "${S}"/configure.ac || die 'could not patch configure.ac'
+
+	eautoreconf
+}
+
+multilib_src_compile() {
+	default
+
+	if multilib_is_native_abi && use doc ; then
+		emake doxygen
+	fi
+}
+
+multilib_src_install() {
+	default
+
+	if multilib_is_native_abi && use doc ; then
+		dodoc -r doc/html
+	fi
+}
+
+multilib_src_install_all() {
+	dodoc Changelog README*
+
+	find "${D}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+	use python && python_optimize
+
+	if use vim-syntax ; then
+		insinto /usr/share/vim/vimfiles/ftdetect
+		doins libdns.vim
+	fi
+
+	einfo
+	elog "Install net-dns/ldns-utils if you want drill and examples"
+	einfo
+}