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+SUMMARY = "Extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm"
+DESCRIPTION = "xxHash is an extremely fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm, \
+working at speeds close to RAM limits."
+HOMEPAGE = "http://www.xxhash.com/"
+LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause & GPL-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=ed3511a67991a5923907dff2ed268026"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash.git"
+UPSTREAM_CHECK_GITTAGREGEX = "v(?P<pver>\d+(\.\d+)+)"
+
+SRCREV = "e2f4695899e831171ecd2e780078474712ea61d3"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+
+do_compile () {
+	oe_runmake all
+}
+
+do_install () {
+	oe_runmake DESTDIR=${D} install
+}