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+################################################################################
+#      This file is part of OpenELEC - http://www.openelec.tv
+#      Copyright (C) 2009-2017 Stephan Raue (stephan@openelec.tv)
+#
+#  OpenELEC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+#  it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+#  the Free Software Foundation, either version 2 of the License, or
+#  (at your option) any later version.
+#
+#  OpenELEC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+#  but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+#  MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+#  GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+#  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+#  along with OpenELEC.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+################################################################################
+
+PKG_NAME="libaio"
+PKG_VERSION="0.3.110"
+PKG_ARCH="any"
+PKG_LICENSE="GPL"
+PKG_SITE="http://lse.sourceforge.net/io/aio.html"
+PKG_URL="http://http.debian.net/debian/pool/main/liba/libaio/${PKG_NAME}_${PKG_VERSION}.orig.tar.gz"
+PKG_DEPENDS_TARGET="toolchain"
+PKG_SECTION="devel"
+PKG_SHORTDESC="libaio: Kernel Asynchronous I/O (AIO) Support for Linux"
+PKG_LONGDESC="AIO enables even a single application thread to overlap I/O operations with other processing, by providing an interface for submitting one or more I/O requests in one system call (io_submit()) without waiting for completion, and a separate interface (io_getevents()) to reap completed I/O operations associated with a given completion group."
+
+PKG_IS_ADDON="no"
+PKG_AUTORECONF="no"
+
+make_target() {
+  make -C src
+}
+
+makeinstall_target() {
+  mkdir -p $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib
+    cp -PR src/libaio.a $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib
+
+  mkdir -p $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/include
+    cp -PR src/libaio.h $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/include
+}