diff --git a/dev-libs/libcdirectory/Manifest b/dev-libs/libcdirectory/Manifest
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+++ b/dev-libs/libcdirectory/Manifest
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+DIST libcdirectory-experimental-20200702.tar.gz 974541 BLAKE2B 68231700d1159877e1fe8d5524ef95d8eece3317f391d4bec9b736512b7327b3e94293a64d1ea25dbe0b67d2b346ae911a2071beaf26cd7e2a2412b1ab24bf66 SHA512 2ff0b8b457cfac85c00be51a871b81f18e42797a5724afd7ff472151e4807959cc6ddda15a443c341175df21eff65de86f55202c247c33b39cb8aa2af07978ca
+DIST libcdirectory-experimental-20220105.tar.gz 1002670 BLAKE2B 408a8e4208f9fc43c3e14ca2a6ecd143eeb13a28517ebd72bf602c88cadc3b0b4166a39b0ccb228f0023dde172a455bb695592fc321357b726e5e5980a290461 SHA512 d587045db38d8313adbf5f3eed0b8971ddb9ae75517c57652557bc05a5c5459092871ebbee4404d910182db23b1163c5a5600171bd743f23cd110a48e5da4df9
diff --git a/dev-libs/libcdirectory/libcdirectory-20200702.ebuild b/dev-libs/libcdirectory/libcdirectory-20200702.ebuild
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+++ b/dev-libs/libcdirectory/libcdirectory-20200702.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit autotools
+
+DESCRIPTION="Library for cross-platform C directory functions"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/libyal/libcdirectory"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/libyal/libcdirectory/releases/download/${PV}/${PN}-experimental-${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm64 x86"
+IUSE="nls unicode debug"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/libcerror[nls=]
+	dev-libs/libclocale[nls=,unicode=]
+	dev-libs/libuna[nls=,unicode=]
+	nls? (
+		virtual/libiconv
+		virtual/libintl
+	)
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	#makefile was created with 1.16, let's regenerate it
+	eautoreconf
+	eapply_user
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf \
+		$(use_enable nls) \
+		$(use_with nls libiconv-prefix) \
+		$(use_with nls libintl-prefix) \
+		$(use_enable unicode wide-character-type) \
+		$(use_enable debug verbose-output ) \
+		$(use_enable debug debug-output )
+
+#  --disable-shared-libs   disable shared library support
+# not supported in the ebuild at the moment - kind of defeats the entire process
+
+#  --enable-winapi         enable WINAPI support for cross-compilation
+#                          [default=auto-detect]
+# not supported in the ebuild at the moment - requires windows.h, does not make much sense for us
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+	# see https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/installed-files.html#pg0303
+	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+}
diff --git a/dev-libs/libcdirectory/libcdirectory-20220105.ebuild b/dev-libs/libcdirectory/libcdirectory-20220105.ebuild
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index 000000000..1e9bb2436
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+++ b/dev-libs/libcdirectory/libcdirectory-20220105.ebuild
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+# Copyright 1999-2020 Gentoo Authors
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+
+EAPI=8
+
+inherit autotools
+
+DESCRIPTION="Library for cross-platform C directory functions"
+HOMEPAGE="https://github.com/libyal/libcdirectory"
+SRC_URI="https://github.com/libyal/libcdirectory/releases/download/${PV}/${PN}-experimental-${PV}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="LGPL-3"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="amd64 ~arm64 x86"
+IUSE="nls unicode debug"
+
+DEPEND="
+	dev-libs/libcerror[nls=]
+	dev-libs/libclocale[nls=,unicode=]
+	dev-libs/libuna[nls=,unicode=]
+	nls? (
+		virtual/libiconv
+		virtual/libintl
+	)
+"
+RDEPEND="${DEPEND}"
+
+src_prepare() {
+	#makefile was created with 1.16, let's regenerate it
+	eautoreconf
+	eapply_user
+}
+
+src_configure() {
+	econf \
+		$(use_enable nls) \
+		$(use_with nls libiconv-prefix) \
+		$(use_with nls libintl-prefix) \
+		$(use_enable unicode wide-character-type) \
+		$(use_enable debug verbose-output ) \
+		$(use_enable debug debug-output )
+
+#  --disable-shared-libs   disable shared library support
+# not supported in the ebuild at the moment - kind of defeats the entire process
+
+#  --enable-winapi         enable WINAPI support for cross-compilation
+#                          [default=auto-detect]
+# not supported in the ebuild at the moment - requires windows.h, does not make much sense for us
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	default
+	# see https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/installed-files.html#pg0303
+	find "${ED}" -name '*.la' -delete || die
+}
diff --git a/dev-libs/libcdirectory/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/libcdirectory/metadata.xml
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+++ b/dev-libs/libcdirectory/metadata.xml
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+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd">
+<pkgmetadata>
+	<maintainer type="person">
+		<email>unknown@pentoo.ch</email>
+		<name>Author Unknown</name>
+	</maintainer>
+</pkgmetadata>