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+# Maintainer: Lukas Fleischer <lfleischer@archlinux.org>
+# Contributor: Bartłomiej Piotrowski <bpiotrowski@archlinux.org>
+# Contributor: Chris Brannon <chris@the-brannons.com>
+# Contributor: Paulo Matias <matiasΘarchlinux-br·org>
+# Contributor: Anders Bergh <anders1@gmail.com>
+
+# ALARM: Kevin Mihelich <kevin@archlinuxarm.org>
+#  - temporary git version for AArch64
+
+buildarch=8
+
+pkgname=luajit-git
+pkgver=v2.1.0.beta1.r3.g55c3b29
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc='Just-in-time compiler and drop-in replacement for Lua 5.1'
+arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
+url='http://luajit.org/'
+license=('MIT')
+depends=('gcc-libs')
+makedepends=('git')
+provides=('luajit')
+source=("git+https://github.com/LuaJIT/LuaJIT.git#branch=v2.1")
+md5sums=('SKIP')
+
+pkgver() {
+  cd LuaJIT
+  ( set -o pipefail
+    git describe --long --tags 2>/dev/null | sed 's/\([^-]*-g\)/r\1/;s/-/./g'
+  )
+}
+
+build() {
+  cd LuaJIT
+  make amalg PREFIX=/usr
+}
+
+package() {
+  cd LuaJIT
+
+  make install DESTDIR="$pkgdir" PREFIX=/usr
+  install -Dm644 COPYRIGHT "$pkgdir/usr/share/licenses/$pkgname/COPYRIGHT"
+}