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+require "formula"
+
+class Pylucene < Formula
+  homepage "http://lucene.apache.org/pylucene/index.html"
+  url "http://www.apache.org/dyn/closer.cgi?path=lucene/pylucene/pylucene-4.7.2-1-src.tar.gz"
+  sha1 "dd9bb535ef96e719030f9a7d00a4cf259748e228"
+
+  option "with-shared", "build jcc as a shared library"
+
+  depends_on :clt => :build
+  depends_on :ant => :build
+  depends_on :python
+
+  def install
+    ENV.prepend_create_path "PYTHONPATH", lib/"python2.7/site-packages"
+    jcc = "JCC=python -m jcc --arch #{MacOS.preferred_arch}"
+    opt = "INSTALL_OPT=--prefix #{prefix}"
+    if build.with? "shared"
+      jcc << " --shared"
+      opoo "shared option requires python to be built with the same compiler: #{ENV.compiler}"
+    else
+      opt << " --use-distutils"  # setuptools only required with shared
+      ENV["NO_SHARED"] = "1"
+    end
+
+    cd "jcc" do
+      system "python", "setup.py", "install", "--prefix=#{prefix}"
+    end
+    ENV.deparallelize  # the jars must be built serially
+    system "make", "all", "install", opt, jcc, "ANT=ant", "PYTHON=python", "NUM_FILES=8"
+  end
+
+  test do
+    ENV.prepend_path "PYTHONPATH", HOMEBREW_PREFIX/"lib/python2.7/site-packages"
+    system "python", "-c", "import lucene; assert lucene.initVM()"
+  end
+end