diff --git a/dev-libs/nmeap/Manifest b/dev-libs/nmeap/Manifest
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+DIST nmeap-0.3.tar.gz 29380 BLAKE2B d4828a1a3d8a66ae529e40c034bf180da9657c2a3dec1ab09f32a9062430952a568612d2071acb887c6f1afdb19de82cb4b6d1788c6e9c2e1e859d9914209b3a SHA512 064a7fe27a192b4abe1393f8f343c8956bd9dd1d0de1441ca96597ab1f155001905b9b0b35d47b61e1f68891b820c602c024e4c74fb809719108711c5b1df815
diff --git a/dev-libs/nmeap/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/nmeap/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>ck+gentoo@bl4ckb0x.de</email>
+		<name>Conrad Kostecki</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<maintainer type="project">
+		<email>proxy-maint@gentoo.org</email>
+		<name>Proxy Maintainers</name>
+	</maintainer>
+	<upstream>
+		<remote-id type="sourceforge">nmeap</remote-id>
+	</upstream>
+	<longdescription>
+		Extensible NMEA-0183 (GPS) data parser in standard C.
+		A directly linkable library intended for applications
+		that want to embed GPS support, like app-misc/lcd4linux.
+	</longdescription>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="doc">Install full html documentation.</flag>
+		<flag name="test-programs">Install test programs for various NMEA output.</flag>
+	</use>
+</pkgmetadata>
diff --git a/dev-libs/nmeap/nmeap-0.3.ebuild b/dev-libs/nmeap/nmeap-0.3.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2018 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=6
+
+DESCRIPTION="Extensible NMEA-0183 (GPS) data parser in standard C"
+HOMEPAGE="http://nmeap.sourceforge.net/"
+SRC_URI="mirror://sourceforge/${PN}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="doc test-programs"
+
+DEPEND="doc? ( app-doc/doxygen )"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	default
+
+	# Repsect users CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for the static lib archive
+	sed -i -e 's/CFLAGS =/CFLAGS +=/' -e 's/-g -O0 -Werror -Wall/$(LDFLAGS)/' src/Makefile || die
+
+	# Silent output of Doxygen and update it, since it is quite old
+	if use doc; then
+		sed -i -e 's/QUIET.*/QUIET = YES/' Doxyfile || die
+		doxygen -u Doxyfile 2>/dev/null || die
+	fi
+
+	# Respect users CFLAGS and LDFLAGS for the test programs
+	# Only build those test programs, if a user wants it
+	if use test-programs; then
+		sed -i -e 's/-g -O0//' -e 's/-Wall -Werror/$(CFLAGS) $(LDFLAGS)/' tst/Makefile || die
+	else
+		sed -i -e '/TST/d' Makefile || die
+	fi
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	insinto /usr/include
+	doins inc/nmeap.h inc/nmeap_def.h
+
+	insinto /usr/$(get_libdir)
+	doins lib/libnmeap.a
+
+	if use doc; then
+		local HTML_DOCS=( "doc/tutorial.html" "doc/html" )
+		doxygen Doxyfile || die
+	fi
+
+	if use test-programs; then
+		newbin tst/test1 nmeap-test1
+		newbin tst/test2 nmeap-test2
+		newbin tst/test3 nmeap-test3
+	fi
+
+	einstalldocs
+}