Add latest version of pcre (#3453)

var/spack/repos/builtin/packages/pcre/package.py

@@ -25,28 +25,29 @@
 from spack import *
 
 
-class Pcre(Package):
+class Pcre(AutotoolsPackage):
     """The PCRE package contains Perl Compatible Regular Expression
     libraries. These are useful for implementing regular expression
     pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5."""
-    homepage = "http://www.pcre.org"""
-    url      = "https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/pcre-8.36.tar.bz2"
 
+    homepage = "http://www.pcre.org"
+    url      = "https://ftp.pcre.org/pub/pcre/pcre-8.40.tar.bz2"
+
+    version('8.40', '41a842bf7dcecd6634219336e2167d1d')
     version('8.39', 'e3fca7650a0556a2647821679d81f585')
     version('8.38', '00aabbfe56d5a48b270f999b508c5ad2')
 
-    patch("intel.patch", when='@8.38')
+    patch('intel.patch', when='@8.38')
 
     variant('utf', default=True,
             description='Enable support for UTF-8/16/32, '
             'incompatible with EBCDIC.')
 
-    def install(self, spec, prefix):
-        configure_args = ['--prefix=%s' % prefix]
-        if '+utf' in spec:
-            configure_args.append('--enable-utf')
-            configure_args.append('--enable-unicode-properties')
+    def configure_args(self):
+        args = []
 
-        configure(*configure_args)
-        make()
-        make("install")
+        if '+utf' in self.spec:
+            args.append('--enable-utf')
+            args.append('--enable-unicode-properties')
+
+        return args