--- /dev/null
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+ <maintainer type="project">
+ <email>sci-astronomy@gentoo.org</email>
+ <name>Gentoo Astronomy Project</name>
+ </maintainer>
+ <longdescription lang="en">
+ The Positional Astronomy Library is a collection of code designed
+ to aid in replacing the SLA library with code from NOVAS and
+ ERFA. Where possible the API is similar to the C SLA API except
+ for the use of a "pal" prefix.
+ </longdescription>
+</pkgmetadata>
--- /dev/null
+# Copyright 1999-2016 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=6
+
+inherit eutils
+
+DESCRIPTION="Positional Astronomy Library"
+HOMEPAGE="http://github.com/Starlink/pal"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/Starlink/${PN}/releases/download/v${PV}/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="GPL-2"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86 ~amd64-linux ~x86-linux"
+IUSE="doc static-libs"
+RDEPEND="sci-astronomy/erfa:="
+DEPEND="${RDEPEND}"
+
+src_configure() {
+ econf --without-starlink \
+ --without-stardocs \
+ --with-erfa \
+ $(use_enable static-libs static)
+}
+
+src_install() {
+ default
+ # remove cruft from non-fhs complient
+ rm -r "${ED}"usr/share/pal || die
+ rm -r "${ED}"usr/{docs,manifests,news} || die
+ use static-libs || prune_libtool_files --all
+}