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+#!/usr/bin/env beesh
+
+# BEE_VERSION kitty-0.48.2-0
+
+# kitty, a GPU-accelerated terminal emulator (https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/).
+#
+# Built the same way distros package it: `setup.py linux-package`, which
+# compiles the C extensions and the Go-based kitten launcher/helpers, then
+# assembles a full /usr tree directly at the given --prefix.
+#
+# NOTE: unlike current git HEAD, v0.48.2 ships its GPU shaders as plain
+# .glsl files compiled at runtime by OpenGL itself (kitty/*.glsl, loaded via
+# read_kitty_resource() in kitty/shaders.py) -- it does not use the Slang
+# shading language / slangc at all, so shader-slang.be0 is NOT a dependency
+# of this package (that only becomes true for a future kitty version built
+# past the commit that introduces kitty/shaders/slang.py).
+#
+# kitty's freetype.c unconditionally uses FT_Get_Color_Glyph_Paint/COLRv1,
+# added in FreeType 2.13; the system freetype.be0 here predates that. Rather
+# than bump a foundational package shared by cairo/fontconfig/the whole X11
+# stack just for kitty, build a private, static-only, PIC FreeType under
+# ${B} (see mee_build) and link it straight into fast_data_types.so --
+# same self-contained, no-added-runtime-dependency approach as simde above,
+# just needing an actual compile step since FreeType isn't header-only.
+#
+# Build-time deps beyond the usual toolchain (gcc/clang, pkg-config, go, python3):
+#   harfbuzz, libcanberra, xxhash, lcms2, pixman, cairo, fontconfig, openssl,
+#   zlib, libpng16, libX11, libXcursor, libXext, libXfixes, libXi,
+#   libXinerama, libXrandr, libXrender, libxkbcommon, dbus, systemd
+#SRCURL[0]="https://github.com/kovidgoyal/kitty/archive/v${PKGVERSION}/kitty-${PKGVERSION}.tar.gz"
+SRCURL[0]="https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/09d47f66904d7d54c9c1ff42b20082f1/kitty-0.48.2.tar.gz"
+
+# kitty's build requires the Symbols NERD Font Mono either installed
+# system-wide or placed at fonts/SymbolsNerdFontMono-Regular.ttf (used to
+# bake in fallback glyph coverage); no system package for it exists here,
+# so fetch upstream's symbols-only release bundle and take just that one
+# file (see mee_extract below). This release tarball has no wrapping
+# top-level directory, unlike SRCURL[0], and kitty's own top-level LICENSE
+# file would collide with the bundle's own LICENSE if both were extracted
+# into ${S} the normal way -- so pull only the one member we need straight
+# into fonts/ instead of extracting the whole tarball into ${S}.
+#SRCURL[1]="https://github.com/ryanoasis/nerd-fonts/releases/download/v3.5.1/NerdFontsSymbolsOnly.tar.xz"
+SRCURL[1]="https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/dba0eb44655774e667d17cb3f7a265e7/NerdFontsSymbolsOnly.tar.xz"
+
+# simde (SIMD Everywhere): header-only, no runtime dependency at all -- it's
+# pure headers consumed only while compiling kitty/simd-string-impl.h
+# (#include <simde/x86/avx2.h> and friends). No need for a full system
+# package: fetch it, drop the headers under ${B}, and point the compiler at
+# them via setup.py's --extra-include-dirs for this build only.
+#SRCURL[2]="https://github.com/simd-everywhere/simde/archive/v0.8.2/simde-0.8.2.tar.gz"
+SRCURL[2]="https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/14323994d1f791e985c59ddf0b559e35/simde-0.8.2.tar.gz"
+
+# FreeType 2.14.3, built privately and statically -- see mee_build.
+#SRCURL[3]="https://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.14.3.tar.xz"
+SRCURL[3]="https://beehive.molgen.mpg.de/5e78e6fdce5a61d3075e4c25e9852f84/freetype-2.14.3.tar.xz"
+
+# PATCHURL+=()
+
+build_in_sourcedir
+
+# sourcesubdir_append src
+
+mee_extract() {
+    bee_extract "${1}"
+    mkdir -p "${S}/fonts"
+    bee_extract_do_tar "${2}" "${S}/fonts" SymbolsNerdFontMono-Regular.ttf
+    mkdir -p "${B}/simde-src"
+    bee_extract_do_tar "${3}" "${B}/simde-src" --strip-components 1
+    mkdir -p "${B}/freetype-src"
+    bee_extract_do_tar "${4}" "${B}/freetype-src" --strip-components 1
+}
+
+#mee_patch() {
+#    bee_patch "${@}"
+#}
+
+mee_patch_post() {
+    # Building the man pages / HTML docs requires Sphinx (plus furo,
+    # sphinx-copybutton, sphinxext-opengraph, sphinx-design, sphinx-autobuild)
+    # and matplotlib with its own dependency tree (numpy, Pillow, fonttools,
+    # ...) -- none of which are packaged here. None of that is needed for a
+    # working terminal, so skip generating and bundling docs.
+    sed -i \
+        -e "s/^    skip_docs = False$/    skip_docs = True/" \
+        -e "s/^    if not os.path.exists('docs\/_build\/html'):$/    if False:/" \
+        ${S}/setup.py
+}
+
+# not needed: kitty itself is built by setup.py in one shot, and FreeType
+# is configured as part of mee_build below.
+mee_configure() {
+    :
+}
+
+mee_build() {
+    # Static-only (no libfreetype.so at all -- the linker then has no
+    # choice but to pull in the .a) and PIC (required to link a static lib
+    # into fast_data_types.so, a shared object). Drop the optional
+    # harfbuzz/bzip2/png/brotli integrations: kitty links harfbuzz directly
+    # itself for text shaping, and none of this is needed just to satisfy
+    # kitty's freetype.c.
+    (
+        cd ${B}/freetype-src
+        start_cmd ./configure \
+            --prefix=${B}/local \
+            --disable-shared --enable-static --with-pic \
+            --with-harfbuzz=no --with-bzip2=no --with-png=no --with-brotli=no --with-zlib=yes
+        start_cmd make -j"$(nproc)"
+        start_cmd make install
+    )
+}
+
+mee_install() {
+    export GOPATH=${B}/bee_go
+    export GOCACHE=${B}/.cache
+    export GOENV=${B}/.env
+    # Go's module cache is read-only by default (0444/0555), which makes a
+    # later `bee -c` rebuild's cleanup of this build dir fail with EPERM.
+    export GOFLAGS=-modcacherw
+    # kitty gets freetype2's cflags/libs transitively, via cairo-fc's
+    # pkg-config Requires. Putting our private, static FreeType first on
+    # PKG_CONFIG_PATH makes that resolve to it instead of the system's
+    # (older, shared) one -- and since no libfreetype.so exists here at
+    # all, the linker has nothing to pick but our static libfreetype.a.
+    export PKG_CONFIG_PATH="${B}/local/lib/pkgconfig${PKG_CONFIG_PATH:+:${PKG_CONFIG_PATH}}"
+    python3 setup.py linux-package \
+        --extra-include-dirs=${B}/simde-src \
+        --prefix=${D}${PREFIX}
+}