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+VERSION="2.9.9"
+TAR="ftp://xmlsoft.org/libxml2/libxml2-${VERSION}.tar.gz"
+BUILD_DEPENDS=()
+
+function recipe_version {
+	echo "$VERSION"
+	skip=1
+}
+
+function recipe_update {
+	echo "skipping update"
+	skip=1
+}
+
+function recipe_build {
+	sysroot="$(realpath ../sysroot)"
+	export CFLAGS="-I$sysroot/include"
+	export LDFLAGS="-L$sysroot/lib --static"
+	./configure \
+	    --build=${BUILD} \
+	    --host=${HOST} \
+	    --prefix=/ \
+	    --disable-shared \
+	    --enable-static \
+	    --without-python
+	make -j"$(nproc)"
+    	skip=1
+}
+
+function recipe_test {
+	echo "skipping test"
+	skip=1
+}
+
+function recipe_clean {
+	make clean
+	skip=1
+}
+
+function recipe_stage {
+	dest="$(realpath $1)"
+	make DESTDIR="$dest" install
+	rm -f "$dest/lib/"*.la
+	skip=1
+}