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+# Copyright 2013-2020 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 Couchdb(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """A CouchDB server hosts named databases, which store documents. Each document
+    is uniquely named in the database, and CouchDB provides a RESTful HTTP API
+    for reading and updating (add, edit, delete) database documents."""
+
+    homepage = "https://couchdb.apache.org/"
+    url      = "http://archive.apache.org/dist/couchdb/source/3.1.0/apache-couchdb-3.1.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('3.1.0', sha256='4867c796a1ff6f0794b7bd3863089ea6397bd5c47544f9b97db8cdacff90f8ed')
+    version('3.0.1', sha256='08d61d5c779957d074d5097f28a2dfc9eb518af3c479d5318135ff31212cc522')
+    version('3.0.0', sha256='d109bb1a70fe746c04a9bf79a2bb1096cb949c750c29dbd196e9c2efd4167fd9')
+
+    depends_on('icu4c')
+    depends_on('openssl')
+    depends_on('curl')
+    depends_on('node-js@6:')
+    depends_on('mozjs@1.8.5')
+    depends_on('gmake',    type='build')
+    depends_on('help2man', type='build')
+    depends_on('python',   type=('build', 'run'))
+    depends_on('erlang@:22.99', type=('build', 'run'))
+
+    def setup_build_environment(self, env):
+        env.set('CPATH', self.spec['mozjs'].prefix.include.js)
+
+    def configure_args(self):
+        args = ['--disable-docs']
+        return args
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        make('release')
+        with working_dir('rel/couchdb/'):
+            install_tree('.', prefix)