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+# $Id$
+# Maintainer: Kyle Keen <keenerd@gmail.com>
+# Contributor: Dmitriy Morozov <foxcub>
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - qt5-svg for aarch64 only due to build issue with Qt GLES
+
+pkgname=cgal
+pkgver=4.8
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="Computational Geometry Algorithms Library"
+arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
+url="http://www.cgal.org"
+license=('GPL' 'LGPL')
+source=("https://github.com/CGAL/cgal/releases/download/releases%2FCGAL-$pkgver/CGAL-$pkgver.tar.xz")
+depends=('mpfr' 'gmp' 'mesa' 'glu' 'boost-libs')
+optdepends=('eigen: for some packages, see the CGAL manual')
+optdepends_aarch64=('qt5-svg: for CGAL_Qt5')
+makedepends=('cmake' 'eigen' 'boost')
+makedepends_aarch64=('qt5-svg')
+md5sums=('e31e7039b5cdc74ac7b106db8ba644f3')
+
+# consider building with swig for python stuff
+# https://gforge.inria.fr/frs/?group_id=52  for _pkgid
+
+# 4.8 supposedly does not depend on boost?  good luck...
+
+build() {
+  cd "$srcdir/CGAL-$pkgver"
+  mkdir build
+  cd build
+  cmake ../ -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr
+  make
+}
+
+package() {
+  cd "$srcdir/CGAL-$pkgver/build"
+  make install DESTDIR="$pkgdir"
+
+  # The tarball still has all these licenses included
+  for _license in LICENSE{,.FREE_USE,.GPL,.LGPL}; do
+    install -D -m644 "$srcdir/CGAL-$pkgver/$_license" "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/$_license"
+  done
+}
+