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+Name:      mythes
+Summary:   A thesaurus library
+Version:   1.2.4
+Release:   9%{?dist}
+Source:    http://downloads.sourceforge.net/hunspell/%{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
+Group:     System Environment/Libraries
+URL:       http://hunspell.sourceforge.net/
+License:   BSD and MIT
+BuildRequires: hunspell-devel
+
+%description
+MyThes is a simple thesaurus that uses a structured text data file and an
+index file with binary search to look up words and phrases and return 
+information on part of speech, meanings, and synonyms.
+
+%package devel
+Requires: mythes = %{version}-%{release}, pkgconfig
+Summary: Files for developing with mythes
+Group: Development/Libraries
+
+%description devel
+Includes and definitions for developing with mythes
+
+%prep
+%setup -q
+
+%build
+%configure --disable-rpath --disable-static
+make %{?_smp_mflags}
+
+%check
+./example th_en_US_new.idx th_en_US_new.dat checkme.lst
+./example morph.idx morph.dat morph.lst morph.aff morph.dic
+
+%install
+rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
+make DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT install
+rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/*.a
+rm -f $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_libdir}/*.la
+mkdir -p $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/%{_datadir}/mythes
+
+%post -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%postun -p /sbin/ldconfig
+
+%files
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc README COPYING AUTHORS
+%{_libdir}/*.so.*
+%{_datadir}/mythes
+
+%files devel
+%defattr(-,root,root,-)
+%doc data_layout.txt
+%{_includedir}/mythes.hxx
+%{_libdir}/*.so
+%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/mythes.pc
+%{_bindir}/th_gen_idx.pl
+
+%changelog
+* Thu Feb 08 2018 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.4-9
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_28_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Thu Aug 03 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.4-8
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Binutils_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Jul 26 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.4-7
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_27_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Feb 10 2017 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.4-6
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_26_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Thu Feb 04 2016 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.4-5
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_24_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Jun 17 2015 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.4-4
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_23_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sat May 02 2015 Kalev Lember <kalevlember@gmail.com> - 1.2.4-3
+- Rebuilt for GCC 5 C++11 ABI change
+
+* Sun Aug 17 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.4-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_22_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Fri Jun 27 2014 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.2.4-1
+- latest version
+
+* Sat Jun 07 2014 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.3-7
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_21_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Sat Aug 03 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.3-6
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_20_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Thu Apr 04 2013 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.2.3-5
+- Resolves: rhbz#926191 support aarch64
+
+* Thu Feb 14 2013 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.3-4
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_19_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Mon Nov 05 2012 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.2.3-3
+- tarball contains MIT-alike licensed wordnet-derived sample thesaurus data
+
+* Fri Jul 20 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.3-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_18_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Thu Jun 28 2012 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.2.3-1
+- latest version
+
+* Fri Jan 13 2012 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.2-2
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_17_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Wed Dec 21 2011 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.2.2-1
+- latest version
+- drop integrated mythes-1.2.1-rhbz675806.patch
+
+* Tue Feb 08 2011 Fedora Release Engineering <rel-eng@lists.fedoraproject.org> - 1.2.1-3
+- Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_15_Mass_Rebuild
+
+* Tue Feb 08 2011 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.2.1-2
+- Resolves: rhbz#675806 fix crash if thesarus is busted
+
+* Mon Jun 21 2010 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.2.1-1
+- latest version
+
+* Thu Mar 11 2010 Caolán McNamara <caolanm@redhat.com> - 1.2.0-1
+- initial version