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+#
+# This is free software, licensed under your choice of the following SPDX identifiers:
+# Apache-2.0, BSD-2-Clause, CC-BY-4.0, ISC, MIT, X11 or GPL-2.0-or-later
+
+include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
+
+PKG_NAME:=linotify
+PKG_VERSION:=0.5
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
+
+PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
+PKG_SOURCE_URL=https://codeload.github.com/hoelzro/$(PKG_NAME)/tar.gz/$(PKG_VERSION)?
+PKG_HASH:=21d005f16043397a85913a7d14a267716d6384f0228718d5de464bfc0274e338
+
+PKG_MAINTAINER:=Karl Palsson <karlp@etactica.com>
+PKG_LICENSE:=MIT
+PKG_LICENSE_FILES:=COPYRIGHT
+
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
+
+define Package/linotify
+  SUBMENU:=Lua
+  SECTION:=lang
+  CATEGORY:=Languages
+  TITLE:=inotify binding for lua
+  DEPENDS:=+lua
+  URL:=https://github.com/hoelzro/linotify
+endef
+
+define Package/linotify/description
+ This provides a lua binding to the inotify file system change notification system
+endef
+
+define Build/Compile
+  cd $(PKG_BUILD_DIR) && \
+  $(TARGET_CC) -o inotify.so -shared $(FPIC) $(TARGET_CFLAGS) $(TARGET_LDFLAGS) linotify.c
+endef
+
+define Package/$(PKG_NAME)/install
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/lib/lua
+	$(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_BUILD_DIR)/inotify.so $(1)/usr/lib/lua
+endef
+
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,linotify))