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+# Copyright 2013-2020 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class HybridLambda(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """Hybrid-Lambda is a software package that can simulate gene trees
+       within a rooted species network or a rooted species tree under the
+       coalescent process.
+
+       The main feature of this program is that users can
+       choose to use the standard Kingman coalescent process, which produces
+       bifurcating genealogies, or two other Lambda coalescent processes,
+       which produce multifurcating genealogies. The other feature is that
+       hybrid sim uses extended Newick formatted strings to make it easier to
+       represent hybridization events between species."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/hybridLambda/hybrid-Lambda"
+    git      = "https://github.com/hybridLambda/hybrid-Lambda.git"
+
+    version('develop', submodules=True)
+
+    depends_on('autoconf', type='build')
+    depends_on('automake', type='build')
+    depends_on('libtool', type='build')
+    depends_on('m4', type='build')
+    depends_on('boost')
+    depends_on('cppunit', type='test')
+
+    build_directory = 'src'
+
+    @run_after('configure')
+    def change_install_option_in_makefile(self):
+        with working_dir('src'):
+            filter_file(r'INSTALL = /bin/install -c',
+                        'INSTALL = /bin/install -C', 'Makefile')