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+# Copyright 2013-2023 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.package import *
+
+
+class E3smScorpio(CMakePackage):
+    """The SCORPIO (Software for Caching Output and Reads for Parallel I/O)
+    library is used by all the model components in DOE's Energy Exascale Earth
+    System Model (E3SM) for reading input data and writing model output"""
+
+    homepage = "https://e3sm.org/scorpio-parallel-io-library/"
+    url = "https://github.com/E3SM-Project/scorpio/archive/refs/tags/scorpio-v1.4.1.tar.gz"
+
+    version("1.4.1", sha256="7cb4589410080d7e547ef17ddabe68f749e6af019c1d0e6ee9f11554f3ff6b1a")
+
+    variant("timing", default="False", description="Enable timing")
+    variant("mpi", default="True", description="Enable MPI")
+
+    depends_on("gptl", when="+timing")
+    depends_on("mpi", when="+mpi")
+    depends_on("parallel-netcdf", when="+mpi")
+    depends_on("netcdf-c")
+    depends_on("netcdf-fortran")
+
+    def cmake_args(self):
+        opts = []
+        opts.append(self.define("NetCDF_C_PATH", self.spec["netcdf-c"].prefix))
+        opts.append(self.define("NetCDF_Fortran_PATH", self.spec["netcdf-fortran"].prefix))
+
+        if self.spec.satisfies("+timing"):
+            opts.append(self.define("PIO_ENABLE_TIMING", "ON"))
+            opts.append(self.define("GPTL_PATH", self.spec["gptl"].prefix))
+        else:
+            opts.append(self.define("PIO_ENABLE_TIMING", "OFF"))
+
+        if self.spec.satisfies("+mpi"):
+            opts.append(self.define("CMAKE_C_COMPILER", self.spec["mpi"].mpicc))
+            opts.append(self.define("CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER", self.spec["mpi"].mpicxx))
+            opts.append(self.define("CMAKE_Fortran_COMPILER", self.spec["mpi"].mpifc))
+            opts.append(self.define("WITH_PNETCDF", "ON"))
+            opts.append(self.define("PNETCDF_PATH", self.spec["parallel-netcdf"].prefix))
+        else:
+            opts.append(self.define("WITH_PNETCDF", "OFF"))
+
+        return opts
+
+    def setup_build_environment(self, env):
+        env.set("NetCDF_C_PATH", self.spec["netcdf-c"].prefix)
+        env.set("NetCDF_Fortran_PATH", self.spec["netcdf-fortran"].prefix)
+        if self.spec.satisfies("+mpi"):
+            env.set("PNETCDF_PATH", self.spec["parallel-netcdf"].prefix)