diff --git a/srcpkgs/libparserutils-devel b/srcpkgs/libparserutils-devel
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+++ b/srcpkgs/libparserutils-devel
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+libparserutils
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libparserutils/depends b/srcpkgs/libparserutils/depends
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+abi_depends=">=0.1.1"
+api_depends="${abi_depends}"
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libparserutils/libparserutils-devel.template b/srcpkgs/libparserutils/libparserutils-devel.template
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+++ b/srcpkgs/libparserutils/libparserutils-devel.template
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+# Template file for 'libparserutils-devel'.
+#
+short_desc="${sourcepkg} development files"
+long_desc="${long_desc}
+
+ This package contains files for development, headers, static libs, etc."
+
+Add_dependency run libparserutils
+
+do_install() {
+
+	vmove usr/include usr
+	vmove usr/lib/pkgconfig usr/lib
+
+}
diff --git a/srcpkgs/libparserutils/template b/srcpkgs/libparserutils/template
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+++ b/srcpkgs/libparserutils/template
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+# Template build file for 'libnsgif'.
+pkgname=libparserutils
+version=0.1.1
+distfiles="http://www.netsurf-browser.org/projects/releases/${pkgname}-${version}-src.tar.gz"
+short_desc="Library for building efficient parsers, written in C."
+maintainer="davehome <davehome@redthumb.info.tm>"
+checksum=8b79ba58d6fa63fa9c74b71482d93f2c5b2c22badac77265f3cc47f3f603f87d
+long_desc="
+ LibParserUtils is a library for building efficient parsers, written
+ in C. It was developed as part of the NetSurf project and is available
+ for use by other software under the MIT licence.
+
+ * Features
+ 	No mandatory dependencies (iconv() implementation optional for
+ 		enhanced charset support)
+ 	A number of built-in character set converters
+ 	Mapping of character set names to/from MIB enum values
+ 	UTF-8 and UTF-16 (host endian) support functions
+ 	Various simple data structures (resizeable buffer, stack, vector)
+ 	A UTF-8 input stream
+ 	Simple C API
+ 	Portable
+ 	Shared library"
+
+subpackages="${pkgname}-devel"
+
+Add_dependency build sed
+Add_dependency build perl
+
+do_build() {
+	make ${makejobs}
+}
+
+do_install() {
+	make ${makejobs} PREFIX=/usr DESTDIR=${DESTDIR} install
+}