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 # ocaml-camomile
 
+Camomile is a Unicode library for objective caml (a. k. a. OCaml or O'Caml) language.
+Camomile provides Unicode character type, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 strings, conversion to/from about 200 encodings, collation and locale-sensitive case mappings, and more.
+The library is currently designed for Unicode Standard 3.2.
+
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+%define ocamlpck  camomile
+
+Name:          ocaml-camomile
+Version:       0.8.3
+Release:       2mamba
+Summary:       a Unicode library for objective caml language
+Group:         System/Libraries
+Vendor:        openmamba
+Distribution:  openmamba
+Packager:      Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it>
+URL:           http://camomile.sourceforge.net/
+Source:        http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/camomile/camomile-%{version}.tar.bz2
+License:       LGPL
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-BEGIN
+## AUTOBUILDREQ-END
+BuildRequires: ocaml
+BuildRequires: ocaml-findlib
+BuildRoot:     %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-root
+
+%description
+Camomile is a Unicode library for objective caml (a. k. a. OCaml or O'Caml) language.
+Camomile provides Unicode character type, UTF-8, UTF-16, UTF-32 strings, conversion to/from about 200 encodings, collation and locale-sensitive case mappings, and more.
+The library is currently designed for Unicode Standard 3.2.
+
+%package devel
+Group:         Development/Libraries
+Summary:       Development files for %{name}
+Requires:      %{name} = %{?epoch:%epoch:}%{version}-%{release}
+
+%description devel
+This package contains libraries and signature files for developing applications that use %{name}.
+
+%prep
+%setup -q -n camomile-%{version}
+
+%build
+%configure --disable-ldconf
+make
+
+%install
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+export OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR=%{buildroot}$(ocamlfind printconf destdir)
+install -d $OCAMLFIND_DESTDIR/%{ocamlpck}
+
+make install DATADIR=%{buildroot}%{_datadir}
+
+%clean
+[ "%{buildroot}" != / ] && rm -rf "%{buildroot}"
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%dir %{_libdir}/ocaml/%{ocamlpck}
+%{_libdir}/ocaml/%{ocamlpck}/META
+%{_libdir}/ocaml/%{ocamlpck}/*.cma
+%{_libdir}/ocaml/%{ocamlpck}/*.cmi
+%dir %{_datadir}/camomile
+%dir %{_datadir}/camomile/charmaps
+%{_datadir}/camomile/charmaps/*.mar
+%dir %{_datadir}/camomile/database
+%{_datadir}/camomile/database/*.mar
+%dir %{_datadir}/camomile/locales
+%{_datadir}/camomile/locales/*.mar
+%dir %{_datadir}/camomile/mappings
+%{_datadir}/camomile/mappings/*.mar
+%doc COPYING
+
+%files devel
+%defattr(-,root,root)
+%{_libdir}/ocaml/%{ocamlpck}/*.a
+%{_libdir}/ocaml/%{ocamlpck}/*.cmx
+%{_libdir}/ocaml/%{ocamlpck}/*.cmxa
+%{_libdir}/ocaml/%{ocamlpck}/*.mli
+
+%changelog
+* Sun Jun 23 2013 Davide Madrisan <davide.madrisan@gmail.com> 0.8.3-2mamba
+- rebuilt against ocaml 4.00
+- add a devel package
+
+* Wed Jan 23 2013 Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> 0.8.3-1mamba
+- package created by silvan using the webbuild interface