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+#
+# Copyright (C) 2007-2012 OpenWrt.org
+#
+# This is free software, licensed under the GNU General Public License v2.
+# See /LICENSE for more information.
+#
+
+include $(TOPDIR)/rules.mk
+
+PKG_NAME:=htop
+PKG_VERSION:=1.0.3
+PKG_RELEASE:=1
+
+PKG_SOURCE:=$(PKG_NAME)-$(PKG_VERSION).tar.gz
+PKG_SOURCE_URL:=http://hisham.hm/htop/releases/$(PKG_VERSION)/
+PKG_MD5SUM:=e768b9b55c033d9c1dffda72db3a6ac7
+
+PKG_FIXUP:=autoreconf
+PKG_INSTALL:=1
+
+include $(INCLUDE_DIR)/package.mk
+
+define Package/htop
+  SECTION:=admin
+  CATEGORY:=Administration
+  TITLE:=Interactive processes viewer
+  DEPENDS:=+libncurses
+  URL:=http://htop.sourceforge.net/
+endef
+
+define Package/htop/description
+ Htop is an ncursed-based process viewer similar to top, but
+ it allows to scroll the list vertically and horizontally to
+ see all processes and their full command lines.
+endef
+
+CONFIGURE_ARGS += \
+	--disable-native-affinity \
+	--disable-unicode \
+	--enable-hwloc
+
+CONFIGURE_VARS += \
+	ac_cv_file__proc_stat=yes \
+	ac_cv_file__proc_meminfo=yes \
+	ac_cv_func_malloc_0_nonnull=yes \
+	ac_cv_func_realloc_0_nonnull=yes
+
+define Package/htop/install
+	$(INSTALL_DIR) $(1)/usr/bin
+	$(INSTALL_BIN) $(PKG_INSTALL_DIR)/usr/bin/$(PKG_NAME) $(1)/usr/bin/
+endef
+
+$(eval $(call BuildPackage,htop))