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+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2014, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
+# Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
+#
+# This file is part of Spack.
+# Written by Matthew LeGendre, legendre1@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
+# LLNL-CODE-647188
+#
+# For details, see https://scalability-llnl.github.io/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 General Public License (as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1 dated 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 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 Spindle(Package):
+    homepage = "https://computation-rnd.llnl.gov/spindle"
+    url      = "https://github.com/hpc/Spindle/archive/v0.8.1.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://github.com/hpc/Spindle/releases"
+
+    versions = {'0.8.1' : 'f11793a6b9d8df2cd231fccb2857d912' }
+
+    depends_on("launchmon")
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        configure("--prefix=" + prefix)
+        make()
+        make("install")