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+# Maintainer:
+
+pkgname=st-luke-git
+_pkgname=st
+_pkgver=0.8.1
+pkgver=0.8.1.r1044.7af0421
+pkgrel=1
+pkgdesc="Luke's build of st - the simple (suckless) terminal"
+url='https://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/st'
+arch=('i686' 'x86_64')
+license=('MIT')
+options=('zipman')
+depends=('libxft')
+makedepends=('ncurses' 'libxext' 'git')
+optdepends=('dmenu: feed urls to dmenu')
+source=('git://github.com/LukeSmithxyz/st')
+sha1sums=('SKIP')
+
+provides=("${_pkgname}")
+conflicts=("${_pkgname}")
+
+pkgver() {
+	cd "${_pkgname}"
+	printf "${_pkgver}.r%s.%s" "$(git rev-list --count HEAD)" "$(git rev-parse --short HEAD)"
+}
+
+prepare() {
+	cd $srcdir/${_pkgname}
+ 	# skip terminfo which conflicts with nsurses
+	sed -i '/tic /d' Makefile
+}
+
+build() {
+	cd "${_pkgname}"
+	make X11INC=/usr/include/X11 X11LIB=/usr/lib/X11
+}
+
+package() {
+	cd "${_pkgname}"
+	make PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR="${pkgdir}" install
+	install -Dm644 LICENSE "${pkgdir}/usr/share/licenses/${pkgname}/LICENSE"
+	install -Dm644 README.md "${pkgdir}/usr/share/doc/${pkgname}/README.md"
+}