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+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, 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/llnl/spack
+# Please also see the LICENSE file 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 Cddlib(Package):
+    """The C-library  cddlib is a C implementation of the Double Description 
+    Method of Motzkin et al. for generating all vertices (i.e. extreme points)
+    and extreme rays of a general convex polyhedron in R^d given by a system 
+    of linear inequalities"""
+    homepage = "https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/fukudak/cdd_home/"
+    url      = "ftp://ftp.ifor.math.ethz.ch/pub/fukuda/cdd/cddlib-094h.tar.gz"
+
+    version('094h', '1467d270860bbcb26d3ebae424690e7c')
+
+    # Note: It should be possible to build cddlib also without gmp
+
+    depends_on("gmp")
+    depends_on("libtool")
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        configure("--prefix=%s" % prefix)
+        make()
+        make("install")