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+# Copyright 2013-2019 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 Pal(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """The PAL library is a partial re-implementation of Pat Wallace's
+    popular SLALIB library written in C using a Gnu GPL license
+    and layered on top of the IAU's SOFA library (or the BSD-licensed ERFA)
+    where appropriate."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/Starlink/pal"
+    url      = "https://github.com/Starlink/pal/releases/download/v0.9.8/pal-0.9.8.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.9.8', sha256='191fde8c4f45d6807d4b011511344014966bb46e44029a4481d070cd5e7cc697')
+
+    depends_on('sofa-c')
+    depends_on('erfa')
+
+    variant('starlink', default=False, description='Build with starlink support.')
+
+    def configure_args(self):
+        args = []
+        if '~starlink' in self.spec:
+            args.append('--without-starlink')
+        return args