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+%define _specver        $Id$
+%define _name           ecl
+%define _pkg            %{_name}
+%define _ver            ECL_VERSION
+%define _rel            1
+%define _pkgver         %{_pkg}-%{_ver}
+%define _nv             %{_name}-%{_ver}
+
+%define __installp      %{__install} -p
+%define __installdir    %{__installp} -d
+
+# define _buildtmp   # absurd that RPM connects both build and installation
+                     # _tmppath values
+%define _buildtmp       %{_tmppath}
+%define _filelist       filelist-%{_pkg}-%{_ver}-%{_rel}
+
+##########################################################################
+
+Summary:        ECL - Embeddable Common-Lisp %{_ver}
+Name:           %{_pkg}
+Version:        %{_ver}
+Release:        %{_rel}
+License:        LGPL
+Group:          Development/Languages/Lisp
+URL:            http://ecls.sourceforge.net/
+Source0:        http://easynews.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/ecls/ecl-%{_ver}.tgz
+# want to add these later.
+#Source1:        eclx.tgz
+#Source2:        ecls-regexp.lisp
+BuildRoot:      %{_buildtmp}/%{_nv}-buildroot
+#% REDHAT BuildRequires:  rpm-devel
+#% REDHAT BuildRequires:  gmp-devel
+#% SUSE BuildRequires:  rpm
+#% SUSE BuildRequires:  gmp
+
+%description
+
+ECL stands for Embeddable Common-Lisp.
+
+The ECL project is an effort to modernize Giusseppe Attardi's ECL
+environment to produce an implementation of the Common-Lisp language
+which complies to the ANSI X3J13 definition of the language.
+
+build-id ---> %_specver
+
+##########################################################################
+
+%prep
+if [ -z "%{_buildtmp}" ]; then
+    cat <<EOF >&2
+
+   !!! Required macro is not defined:  '_buildtmp'; aborting!
+
+EOF
+    return 1
+fi
+%setup -q -n %{_nv}
+
+##########################################################################
+
+%build
+%configure \
+        --enable-local-gmp   \
+        --with-x             \
+        --with-ffi           \
+        --with-clos-stream   \
+        --with-tcp
+        # --with-cmuformat     \          # broken
+        # --enable-local-boehm \          # broken
+        # --enable-threads                # non-supported still.
+%{__make}
+
+##########################################################################
+
+%install
+_r=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+rm -rf $_r
+%{__installdir} -m 755 $_r
+
+%{__make}                               \
+        PREFIX=$_r                      \
+        install
+
+[ -x /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress ] && /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
+
+# copy the files in texi/*
+_d=$_r/%{_docdir}/%{_nv}
+%{__installdir} -m 755 $_d
+for i in \
+        build/doc/*.html \
+        src/doc/BUGS \
+        src/doc/help.lsp \
+        src/doc/todo.txt
+do
+    %{__install} -m 644 $i $_d
+done
+
+for a in ecl ecldev
+do
+    _d=$_r/%{_docdir}/%{_nv}/$a
+    %{__installdir} -m 755 $_d
+    for i in \
+            build/doc/$a/*.html
+    do
+        %{__install} -m 644 $i $_d
+    done
+done
+
+# BUG:  to fix problems in the installation code 
+#
+# BUG:  the cause of the first problem is in the configure.in which set the values of
+# libdir, infodir, bindir
+(
+  cd $_r/%{_prefix}
+  %{__installdir} -m 755 share
+  %{__mv} man info share
+)
+# BUG:  the cause of this problem is an 'install -m 644' that installs "cmp.so" with
+# some archive files and lisp files.
+# find $_r -name "*.fas" | xargs chmod a+x
+
+          ##################################################
+
+gen_filelist()
+{
+  _d=$1;shift
+  _l=$1;shift
+  find $_d | perl -nl \
+    -e "\$_d='$_d';" \
+    -e 'if ( ! -d ) { $_f=1; undef $_p; }' \
+    -e 'elsif ( m,$_d.*%{_pkg}, ) { $_f=1; $_p="%dir "; }' \
+    -e 'if ( $_f ) {' \
+    -e '  s,/*$_d/*,/,;' \
+    -e '  printf "%s\n", "$_p$_";' \
+    -e '  undef $_f }' \
+    > $_l
+}
+
+gen_filelist $RPM_BUILD_ROOT %{_filelist}
+
+##########################################################################
+
+# add info files to info dir in %post
+%post
+for _n in ecl ecldev; do
+    _d=%{_infodir}
+    _f=$_d/$_n.info.gz
+    if [ -f $_f ]; then
+        /sbin/install-info $_f $_d/dir
+    fi
+done
+/sbin/ldconfig
+
+# remove info files from info dir in %postun
+%postun
+for _n in ecl ecldev; do
+    _d=%{_infodir}
+    _f=$_d/$_n.info.gz
+    if [ -f $_f ]; then
+        /sbin/install-info --delete $_f $_d/dir
+    fi
+done
+/sbin/ldconfig
+
+##########################################################################
+
+%clean
+#echo The maid is off on `date +%A`.
+for i in "$RPM_BUILD_ROOT" "$RPM_BUILD_DIR/%{_nv}"; do
+    [ "$i" != "/" ] && rm -rf $i || :
+done
+
+##########################################################################
+
+%files -f %{_filelist}
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+
+##########################################################################
+
+%changelog
+* Wed Oct 23 2003 Juanjo <worm@arrakis.es>
+- Ported to Suse and integrated in the ECL distribution.
+
+* Mon Oct 20 2003 Robert Lehr <bozzio@the-lehrs.com>
+- consolidated texi/info patches
+- added build-dependency on gmp-devel
+- changed group to Development/Languages/Lisp
+- added _buildtmp definition for public use
+- added rpm-build build dependency
+
+* Fri Oct 10 2003 Robert Lehr <bozzio@the-lehrs.com>
+- wrote private spec file for ECL v0.9b