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+# Maintainer: Francesco Marinucci <framari [at] openmailbox [dot] org>
+
+pkgname=sparsehash
+pkgver=2.0.2
+pkgrel=2
+pkgdesc="An extremely memory-efficient hash_map implementation."
+arch=('x86_64')
+url="http://code.google.com/p/sparsehash"
+license=('BSD')
+source=("http://sparsehash.googlecode.com/files/$pkgname-$pkgver.tar.gz")
+md5sums=('1db92ed7f257d9b5f14a309d75e8a1d4')
+
+build() {
+	cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
+	./configure --prefix=/usr
+	make
+}
+
+package() {
+	cd "$srcdir/$pkgname-$pkgver"
+	make DESTDIR="$pkgdir/" install
+	install -D -m644 COPYING "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/COPYING"
+}
+