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+# Template file for 'es'
+pkgname=es
+version=0.9beta1
+revision=1
+wrksrc="${pkgname}-${version/beta/-beta}"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+build_pie=yes
+configure_args="--with-readline"
+hostmakedepends="bison"
+makedepends="readline-devel"
+short_desc="Functional shell with rc-inspired syntax"
+maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
+license="Public Domain"
+homepage="http://hawkwind.cs.toronto.edu:8001/mlists/es.html"
+distfiles="ftp://ftp.sys.utoronto.ca/pub/${pkgname}/${pkgname}-${version/beta/-beta}.tar.gz"
+checksum=4085cd7a958fe8753abc026ed1450bd8fac4c70b753a650c5c3618bbe80d082b
+nocross=yes
+
+post_extract() {
+	sed -i '/_STDLIB_H/d' parse.y
+	sed -i 's/CLK_TCK/CLOCKS_PER_SEC/g' prim-sys.c
+	sed -i -e 's/va_arg(format->args, short)/va_arg(format->args, int)/' \
+		-e 's/format->args = saveargs/memcpy(format->args, saveargs, sizeof(va_list));/' print.c
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	vbin es
+	vbin esdebug
+	vman es.1
+}