npth: successor of the pth library, used by upcoming versions of gnupg and its libraries

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+{ stdenv, fetchgit, autoconf, automake, libtool }:
+
+stdenv.mkDerivation rec {
+  name = "npth-git20120407";
+
+  src = fetchgit {
+    url = "git://git.gnupg.org/npth.git";
+    rev = "cbb52bd5ada02bbd914869f4540221831358d077";
+    sha256 = "1789b15bc49171d47bbd5a3bccbadc7dde1ae095bb2c205c7ec5d7a36573876d";
+  };
+
+  buildInputs = [ autoconf automake libtool ];
+
+  preConfigure = "autoreconf -vfi";
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "The New GNU Portable Threads Library";
+    longDescription = ''
+      This is a library to provide the GNU Pth API and thus a non-preemptive
+      threads implementation.
+
+      In contrast to GNU Pth is is based on the system's standard threads
+      implementation.  This allows the use of libraries which are not
+      compatible to GNU Pth.  Experience with a Windows Pth emulation showed
+      that this is a solid way to provide a co-routine based framework.
+    '';
+    homepage = http://www.gnupg.org;
+    license = "LGPLv3";
+    platforms = stdenv.lib.platforms.all;
+  };
+}