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+require 'brewkit'
+
+class Xar <Formula
+  @url='http://xar.googlecode.com/files/xar-1.5.2.tar.gz'
+  @homepage='http://code.google.com/p/xar/'
+  @md5='8eabb055d3387b8edc30ecfb08d2e80d'
+
+  def patches
+    {
+      :p1 => ["http://gist.github.com/raw/178912/fe729be5b2572fd8f09eb6b60c9203a35ef1e8c3/gistfile1.diff"]
+    }
+  end
+
+  def install
+    system "./configure", "--prefix=#{prefix}", "--disable-debug", "--disable-dependency-tracking"
+    system "make"
+    system "make install"
+  end
+end