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+SUMMARY = "The sd-bus library, extracted from systemd."
+HOMEPAGE = "https://sr.ht/~emersion/basu"
+SECTION = "base"
+LICENSE = "LGPL-2.1-only"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.LGPL2.1;md5=4fbd65380cdd255951079008b364516c"
+
+SRC_URI = "git://git.sr.ht/~emersion/basu;protocol=https;branch=master"
+
+DEPENDS += "gperf-native"
+
+S = "${WORKDIR}/git"
+PV = "0.2.1"
+SRCREV = "684a41d68cfbb05e38aacb60a8548e21ddfbecdb"
+
+inherit meson pkgconfig
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ?= ""
+PACKAGECONFIG[libcap] = "-Dlibcap=enabled,-Dlibcap=disabled,libcap"
+PACKAGECONFIG[audit] = "-Daudit=enabled,-Daudit=disabled,audit"
+
+EXTRA_OEMESON += "--buildtype release"