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+# Copyright 2013-2022 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 Crmc(CMakePackage):
+    """CRMC (Cosmic Ray Monte Carlo package). CRMC is a package providing
+       a common interface to access the output from event generators used
+       to model the secondary particle production in hadronic collisons."""
+
+    homepage = "https://web.ikp.kit.edu/rulrich/crmc.html"
+    # Original URL has non-recognized certificate + is password-protected
+    # url = "https://devel-ik.fzk.de/wsvn/mc/crmc/tags/crmc.v1.7.0/?op=dl"
+    url = "https://lcgpackages.web.cern.ch/lcgpackages/tarFiles/sources/MCGeneratorsTarFiles/crmc.v1.7.0.tar.gz"
+
+    # Version 1.7.0 has issues linking phojet, devs contacted but no response
+    # version('1.7.0', sha256='59086f4e654d775a4f6c3974ae89bbfd995391c4677f266881604878b47563d1')
+    version('1.6.0', sha256='ae2ba5aa2a483d20aa60bef35080f555b365715d1a8fae54b473c275813345c1')
+    version('1.5.7', sha256='ec7456c08b60a40665e9ff31d6029e0151b0cdf2ca98bd09a8b570b1e33f6053')
+    version('1.5.6', sha256='a546a9352dcbdb8a1df3d63530eacf16f8b64a190e224b72afd434f78388a8a0')
+
+    depends_on('hepmc')
+    depends_on('boost')
+    depends_on('root')
+
+    patch('https://gitlab.cern.ch/sft/lcgcmake/-/raw/master/generators/patches/crmc-1.6.0.patch',
+          sha256='af07d9abbf8883dfbf54959f0e971e1429c5a1c43a602afa25dc790ba9758f15',
+          when='@1.6.0', level=0)
+    patch('https://gitlab.cern.ch/sft/lcgcmake/-/raw/master/generators/patches/crmc-1.5.6.patch',
+          sha256='fcf767b821cca404569d558f748acb83f692d5b4aca6fd6c8473fcf06c734cf6',
+          when='@1.5.6:1.5.7', level=0)
+
+    def cmake_args(self):
+        args = ['-D__PYTHIA__=ON',
+                '-D__SIBYLL__=ON',
+                '-D__PHOJET__=ON',
+                '-D__DPMJET__=ON',
+                '-D__QGSJETII04__=ON',
+                '-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS=-std=c++' +
+                self.spec['root'].variants['cxxstd'].value]
+        if self.spec.satisfies('@1.6.0:'):
+            args.append('-D__HIJING__=ON')
+        if self.spec.satisfies('%gcc@9:'):
+            args.append('-DCMAKE_Fortran_FLAGS=-fallow-argument-mismatch')
+        return args