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+# Template file for 'tiptop'
+pkgname=tiptop
+version=2.3
+revision=1
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="flex"
+makedepends="ncurses-devel libxml2-devel"
+short_desc="Performance monitoring tool using hardware counters"
+maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
+license="GPL-2"
+homepage="http://tiptop.gforge.inria.fr/"
+distfiles="http://tiptop.gforge.inria.fr/releases/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.gz"
+checksum=3f07e958b40acaeab98e9eb1326c9f91b0be0a782c1cc2bd7a9e18d31fab18ca
+
+post_extract() {
+	sed -i "s/\`uname -m\`/$XBPS_TARGET_MACHINE/" configure
+}
+
+post_install() {
+	vsconf tiptoprc
+}