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+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2017, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
+# Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
+#
+# This file is part of Spack.
+# Created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
+# LLNL-CODE-647188
+#
+# For details, see https://github.com/spack/spack
+# Please also see the NOTICE and LICENSE files for our notice and the LGPL.
+#
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License (as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1, February 1999.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the terms and
+# conditions of the GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
+# License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+# Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
+##############################################################################
+from spack import *
+
+
+class Stow(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """GNU Stow: a symlink farm manager
+
+       GNU Stow is a symlink farm manager which takes distinct
+       packages of software and/or data located in separate
+       directories on the filesystem, and makes them appear to be
+       installed in the same place."""
+
+    homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/stow/"
+    url      = "https://mirrors.kernel.org/gnu/stow/stow-2.2.2.tar.bz2"
+
+    version('2.2.2', 'af1e1de9d973c835bee80c745b5ee849')
+    version('2.2.0', '5bb56592eff9aaf9dfb6c975b3004240')
+    version('2.1.3', '533651c25b29c3630f01d0be33849a7c')
+    version('2.1.2', '0b8154a2165e4004ddc9579e3499af98')
+    version('2.1.1', '882d2490d05723b4b78029c2973775d3')
+    version('2.1.0', 'aa3a2389b6cbf3bd555e15c80a0be6ab')
+
+    depends_on('perl@5.6.1:')