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-# Copyright 1999-2025 Gentoo Authors
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-
-EAPI=8
-
-# Bumping notes:
-# * Remember to modify LAST_KNOWN_AUTOMAKE_VER 'upstream' in dev-build/automake-wrapper
-# on new automake (major) releases, as well as the dependency in RDEPEND below too.
-# * Update _WANT_AUTOMAKE and _automake_atom case statement in autotools.eclass.
-
-PYTHON_COMPAT=( python3_{10..13} )
-
-inherit python-any-r1 verify-sig
-
-MANGLED_SLOT=${PV:0:4}
-
-if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]] ; then
-	EGIT_MIN_CLONE_TYPE=single
-	EGIT_REPO_URI="https://git.savannah.gnu.org/r/${PN}.git"
-	inherit git-r3
-else
-	VERIFY_SIG_OPENPGP_KEY_PATH=/usr/share/openpgp-keys/jimmeyering.asc
-	if [[ $(ver_cut 3) -ge 90 ]] ; then
-		MANGLED_SLOT=$(ver_cut 1).$(($(ver_cut 2) + 1))
-		SRC_URI="
-			https://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz
-			verify-sig? (
-				https://alpha.gnu.org/pub/gnu/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz.sig
-			)
-		"
-	else
-		SRC_URI="
-			mirror://gnu/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz
-			verify-sig? (
-				mirror://gnu/${PN}/${P}.tar.xz.sig
-			)
-		"
-		KEYWORDS="~alpha amd64 arm arm64 hppa ~loong ~m68k ~mips ppc ppc64 ~riscv ~s390 sparc x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux ~arm64-macos ~ppc-macos ~x64-macos ~x64-solaris"
-	fi
-fi
-
-DESCRIPTION="Used to generate Makefile.in from Makefile.am"
-HOMEPAGE="https://www.gnu.org/software/automake/"
-
-LICENSE="GPL-2"
-# Use Gentoo versioning for slotting.
-SLOT="${MANGLED_SLOT}"
-IUSE="test"
-RESTRICT="!test? ( test )"
-
-RDEPEND="
-	>=dev-lang/perl-5.6
-	>=dev-build/automake-wrapper-20240607
-	>=dev-build/autoconf-2.69:*
-	sys-devel/gnuconfig
-"
-BDEPEND="
-	app-alternatives/gzip
-	sys-apps/help2man
-	dev-build/autoconf-wrapper
-	dev-build/autoconf
-	test? (
-		${PYTHON_DEPS}
-		dev-util/dejagnu
-		sys-devel/bison
-		sys-devel/flex
-	)
-	verify-sig? ( sec-keys/openpgp-keys-jimmeyering )
-"
-
-pkg_setup() {
-	use test && python-any-r1_pkg_setup
-}
-
-src_prepare() {
-	default
-
-	export WANT_AUTOCONF=2.5
-	# Don't try wrapping the autotools - this thing runs as it tends
-	# to be a bit esoteric, and the script does `set -e` itself.
-	./bootstrap || die
-	sed -i -e "/APIVERSION=/s:=.*:=${SLOT}:" configure || die
-
-	# bug #628912
-	if ! has_version -b sys-apps/texinfo ; then
-		touch doc/{stamp-vti,version.texi,automake.info} || die
-	fi
-}
-
-src_configure() {
-	# Also used in install.
-	infopath="${EPREFIX}/usr/share/automake-${PV}/info"
-	econf --infodir="${infopath}"
-}
-
-src_test() {
-	# Fails with byacc/flex
-	emake YACC="bison -y" LEX="flex" check
-}
-
-src_install() {
-	default
-
-	rm "${ED}"/usr/share/aclocal/README || die
-	rmdir "${ED}"/usr/share/aclocal || die
-	rm \
-		"${ED}"/usr/bin/{aclocal,automake} \
-		"${ED}"/usr/share/man/man1/{aclocal,automake}.1 || die
-
-	# remove all config.guess and config.sub files replacing them
-	# w/a symlink to a specific gnuconfig version
-	local x
-	for x in guess sub ; do
-		dosym ../gnuconfig/config.${x} \
-			/usr/share/${PN}-${SLOT}/config.${x}
-	done
-
-	# Avoid QA message about pre-compressed file in docs
-	local tarfile="${ED}/usr/share/doc/${PF}/amhello-1.0.tar.gz"
-	if [[ -f "${tarfile}" ]] ; then
-		gunzip "${tarfile}" || die
-	fi
-
-	pushd "${D}/${infopath}" >/dev/null || die
-	for f in *.info*; do
-		# Install convenience aliases for versioned Automake pages.
-		ln -s "$f" "${f/./-${PV}.}" || die
-	done
-	popd >/dev/null || die
-
-	if [[ ${PV} == 9999 ]]; then
-		local major="89"
-		local minor="999"
-	else
-		local major="$(ver_cut 1)"
-		if [[ $(ver_cut 3) -ge 90 ]] ; then
-			local minor=$(($(ver_cut 2) + 1))
-		else
-			local minor="$(ver_cut 2)"
-		fi
-	fi
-	local idx="$((99999-(major*1000+minor)))"
-	newenvd - "06automake${idx}" <<-EOF
-	INFOPATH="${infopath}"
-	EOF
-
-	docompress "${infopath}"
-}