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+opam-version: "1.2"
+author: "Simon Cruanes"
+maintainer: "simon.cruanes@inria.fr"
+build: [
+    ["./configure" "--prefix" prefix "--disable-thread" "--disable-bench"
+        "--disable-tests" "--disable-cgi" "--%{lwt:enable}%-lwt"
+        "--enable-docs" "--enable-misc"]
+    [make "build"]
+]
+install: [
+    [make "install"]
+]
+build-doc: [ make "doc" ]
+build-test: [ make "test" ]
+remove: [
+    ["ocamlfind" "remove" "containers"]
+]
+post-messages: [
+    "in containers, modules start with 'CC' (stands for 'core containers')"
+]
+depends: [
+    "ocamlfind" {build}
+    "base-bytes"
+    "cppo" {build}
+]
+depopts: [ "lwt" ]
+tags: [ "stdlib" "containers" "iterators" "list" "heap" "queue" ]
+homepage: "https://github.com/c-cube/ocaml-containers/"
+doc: "http://cedeela.fr/~simon/software/containers/"
+available: [ocaml-version >= "4.00.0"]
+dev-repo: "https://github.com/c-cube/ocaml-containers.git"
+bug-reports: "https://github.com/c-cube/ocaml-containers/issues/"