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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 F2c(MakefilePackage):
+    """F2c converts Fortran 77 source code to C or C++ source files."""
+
+    homepage = "http://www.netlib.org/f2c/"
+    url      = "http://www.netlib.org/f2c/src.tgz"
+
+    version('master', sha256='d4847456aa91c74e5e61e2097780ca6ac3b20869fae8864bfa8dcc66f6721d35')
+
+    def url_for_version(self, version):
+        url = "http://www.netlib.org/f2c/src.tgz"
+        return url
+
+    def edit(self, spec, prefix):
+        copy('makefile.u', 'makefile')
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        mkdirp(prefix.bin)
+        install('f2c', prefix.bin)
+        install('xsum', prefix.bin)