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+################################################################################
+#
+# pv
+#
+################################################################################
+
+PV_VERSION = 1.5.7
+PV_SOURCE = pv-$(PV_VERSION).tar.bz2
+PV_SITE = http://www.ivarch.com/programs/sources
+PV_LICENSE = Artistic-2.0
+PV_LICENSE_FILES = doc/COPYING
+
+# pv configure script is somewhat stupid: if it cannot find the host
+# gettext tool msgfmt, it concludes that gettext is not available, and
+# provides its own minimal version. Unfortunately, this minimal
+# version conflicts with the available target gettext. We fix this by
+# ensuring that host-gettext is built if gettext support is enabled;
+PV_DEPENDENCIES = $(if $(BR2_NEEDS_GETTEXT_IF_LOCALE),gettext host-gettext)
+
+# While 'pv' uses autoconf, it does not use automake for its
+# makefiles. It uses $(LD) $(LDFLAGS) to achieve partial linking, but
+# using 'ld' directly doesn't work well with some toolchain
+# configuration, as the ld default emulation may not necessarily be
+# the correct one. By passing the below values for LD and LDFLAGS, we
+# ensure that 'gcc' is used to do these partial linking steps.
+PV_MAKE_OPTS = \
+ LD="$(TARGET_CC)" \
+ LDFLAGS="-Wl,-r -nostdlib"
+
+$(eval $(autotools-package))