diff --git a/dev-libs/libdwarf/Manifest b/dev-libs/libdwarf/Manifest
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+DIST libdwarf-20210305.tar.gz 2872089 BLAKE2B 2ce8f29846486ca3b45db606b23fa1aae83af77ce95473b6f55678e930e3f25a81e44db64700dc41969b42a6d1d6086f30d45bd6e30341e1a557aedcda970846 SHA512 6fa05cf88125a95ebe38673d62e944701fdd28ba5c50f7695037acbc386f29b41d6551d9d08283b7d24fba02f3c0d6c8f5d424ee75989b6aef54f8dc2340d0f5
diff --git a/dev-libs/libdwarf/libdwarf-20210305.ebuild b/dev-libs/libdwarf/libdwarf-20210305.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2021 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=7
+
+DESCRIPTION="The DWARF Debugging Information Format"
+HOMEPAGE="
+	https://www.prevanders.net/dwarf.html
+	http://www.dwarfstd.org
+"
+SRC_URI="https://www.prevanders.net/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-2.1 GPL-2 BSD"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64"
+IUSE="dwarfexample dwarfgen +elf global-alloc-sums namestable nonstandardprintf oldframecol sanitize"
+DOCS=( AUTHORS README README.md ChangeLog ChangeLog2018 NEWS )
+
+DEPEND="
+	sys-libs/zlib
+	elf? ( virtual/libelf )
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_configure() {
+
+	local myconf=(
+		--disable-static
+		--disable-windowspath
+		--enable-shared
+		--includedir="${EPREFIX}/usr/include/${PN}"
+	)
+
+	#this configure is so bad it enables when passing --disable
+	use dwarfexample && myconf+=(--enable-dwarfexample)
+	use dwarfgen && myconf+=(--enable-dwarfgen)
+	use elf && myconf+=(--enable-libelf)
+	use global-alloc-sums && myconf+=(--enable-global-alloc-csums)
+	use namestable && myconf+=(--enable-namestable)
+	use nonstandardprintf && myconf+=(--enable-nonstandardprintf)
+	use oldframecol && myconf+=(--enable-oldframecol)
+	use sanitize && myconf+=(--enable-sanitize)
+
+	econf "${myconf[@]}"
+}
+
+src_install(){
+	emake DESTDIR="${D}" install
+	einstalldocs
+
+	#--disable-static get ignored ...
+	find "${D}" -name '*.a' -delete || die
+	find "${D}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+}
diff --git a/dev-libs/libdwarf/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/libdwarf/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<use>
+		<flag name="dwarfexample">enable dwarfexample compilation</flag>
+		<flag name="dwarfgen">enable dwarfgen compilation</flag>
+		<flag name="global-alloc-sums">Enables some allocation counting in dwarf_alloc.c</flag>
+		<flag name="elf">enable use of <pkg>virtual/libelf</pkg></flag>
+		<flag name="namestable">enable name string functions implemented as binary search">default is with C switch)</flag>
+		<flag name="nonstandardprintf">Use a special printf format for 64bit</flag>
+		<flag name="oldframecol">enable old frame columns</flag>
+		<flag name="sanitize">build with sanitizers</flag>
+	</use>
+</pkgmetadata>