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+require 'formula'
+
+class Hexchat < Formula
+  homepage 'http://hexchat.github.io/'
+  url 'https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat/archive/v2.9.6.tar.gz'
+  sha1 'f19248e8d255cf463d5c0eba3e3df02a431f3911'
+  head 'https://github.com/hexchat/hexchat.git'
+
+  depends_on :macos => :lion
+
+  depends_on 'pkg-config' => :build
+  depends_on 'automake' => :build
+  depends_on 'autoconf' => :build
+  depends_on 'libtool' => :build
+  depends_on :python => :recommended
+  depends_on 'gettext'
+  depends_on 'gtk+'
+  depends_on :x11
+
+  option 'without-perl', 'Build without Perl support'
+  option 'without-plugins', 'Build without plugin support'
+
+  def install
+    args = %W[--prefix=#{prefix}
+              --disable-dependency-tracking
+              --enable-openssl
+              --disable-xlib]
+
+    # Fails on 32-bit core solo without this
+    args << "--disable-mmx" unless MacOS.prefer_64_bit?
+
+    args << "--disable-python" unless build.with? "python"
+    args << "--disable-perl" if build.include? "without-perl"
+    args << "--disable-plugin" if build.include? "without-plugins"
+
+    # Build fails because of a conflict with the system 'strptime',
+    # so rename the function
+    inreplace "src/fe-gtk/banlist.c" do |s|
+      s.gsub! "strptime", "_strptime"
+    end
+
+    # The locations of the gettext dependencies are hardcoded, so copy them
+    gettext = Formula.factory('gettext').opt_prefix/'share/gettext'
+    cp_r ["#{gettext}/intl", "#{gettext}/po"], "."
+
+    system "autoreconf -vi"
+    system "./configure", *args
+    system "make"
+    system "make install"
+
+    rm_rf share/"applications"
+  end
+end