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+DESCRIPTION = "nodeJS Evented I/O for V8 JavaScript"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://nodejs.org"
+LICENSE = "MIT"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=5c2b22818f53dbcb43dee3cb4daf7845"
+
+DEFAULT_PREFERENCE = "-1"
+
+DEPENDS = "openssl"
+
+SRC_URI = "http://nodejs.org/dist/v${PV}/node-v${PV}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "92b8085967110b0125c192634f127a2b"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "b161050ed8cdb2d45f601181d146821e5535a8fcbf5978b2ff064e5476a8e606"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/node-v${PV}"
+
+# v8 errors out if you have set CCACHE
+CCACHE = ""
+
+# Node is way too cool to use proper autotools, so we install two wrappers to forcefully inject proper arch cflags to workaround waf+scons
+do_configure () {
+  echo '#!/bin/sh' > ${WORKDIR}/gcc
+  echo '${CC} $@' >> ${WORKDIR}/gcc
+
+  echo '#!/bin/sh' > ${WORKDIR}/g++
+  echo '${CXX} $@'>> ${WORKDIR}/g++
+
+  chmod +x ${WORKDIR}/gcc ${WORKDIR}/g++
+
+  sed -i -e s:\'/usr/lib:\'${STAGING_LIBDIR}:g wscript
+  sed -i -e s:\'/usr/local/lib:\'${STAGING_LIBDIR}:g wscript
+
+  export PATH=${WORKDIR}:${PATH}
+  export CC=gcc
+  export CXX=g++
+
+  ./configure --prefix=${prefix} --without-snapshot
+}
+
+do_compile () {
+  export PATH=${WORKDIR}:${PATH}
+  export CC=gcc
+  export CXX=g++
+  make
+}
+
+do_install () {
+  DESTDIR=${D} oe_runmake install
+}
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} = "curl python-shell python-datetime python-subprocess python-crypt python-textutils python-netclient "
+
+FILES_${PN} += "${libdir}/node/wafadmin"
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native"