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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 Libibumad(CMakePackage):
+    """This package installs the user-space libraries and headers for libibumad.
+       This is a subset of the linux-rdma distribution."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/linux-rdma/"
+    url      = "https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core/archive/v25.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('25.0', sha256='d735bd091d13e8a68ce650e432b5bdc934fc7f1d5fb42a6045278a5b3f7fe48b')
+
+    depends_on('libnl')
+
+    def build(self, spec, prefix):
+        with working_dir(join_path(self.build_directory, 'libibumad')):
+            make()
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        with working_dir(join_path(self.build_directory, 'libibumad')):
+            make('install')