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+# Template file for 'sparsehash'
+pkgname=sparsehash
+version=2.0.2
+revision=1
+noarch=yes
+build_style=gnu-configure
+short_desc="Library that contains several hash-map implementations"
+maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
+license="BSD"
+homepage="http://code.google.com/p/sparsehash"
+distfiles="http://sparsehash.googlecode.com/files/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
+checksum=2ed639a7155607c097c2029af5f4287296595080b2e5dd2e2ebd9bbb7450b87c
+
+post_install() {
+	vinstall COPYING 644 usr/share/licenses/$pkgname
+}