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-# Copyright 1999-2014 Gentoo Foundation
-# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
-# $Id$
-
-EAPI="5"
-
-USE_RUBY="ruby19 ruby20"
-
-inherit ruby-ng
-
-DESCRIPTION="Ruby binding for MeCab"
-HOMEPAGE="http://mecab.sourceforge.net/"
-SRC_URI="https://mecab.googlecode.com/files/${P}.tar.gz"
-
-LICENSE="|| ( BSD LGPL-2.1 GPL-2 )"
-SLOT="0"
-KEYWORDS="amd64 ppc ppc64 x86"
-IUSE=""
-
-DEPEND="~app-text/mecab-${PV}"
-RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
-
-each_ruby_configure() {
-	${RUBY} extconf.rb || die
-}
-
-each_ruby_compile() {
-	emake V=1
-}
-
-each_ruby_install() {
-	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
-}
-
-all_ruby_install() {
-	dodoc AUTHORS README test.rb
-	dohtml bindings.html
-}