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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 Gengetopt(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """Tool to write command line option parsing code for C programs"""
+
+    homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/gengetopt/gengetopt.html"
+    url = "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gengetopt/gengetopt-2.23.tar.xz"
+
+    maintainers = ['rblake-llnl']
+
+    version('2.23',   sha256='b941aec9011864978dd7fdeb052b1943535824169d2aa2b0e7eae9ab807584ac')
+    version('2.22.6', sha256='30b05a88604d71ef2a42a2ef26cd26df242b41f5b011ad03083143a31d9b01f7')
+    version('2.22.5', sha256='3b6fb3240352b0eb0c5b8583b58b62cbba58167cef5a7e82fa08a7f968ed2137')
+    version('2.22.4', sha256='4edf6b24ec8085929c86835c51d5bf904052cc671530c15f9314d9b87fe54421')
+    version('2.22.3', sha256='8ce6b3df49cefea97bd522dc054ede2037939978bf23754d5c17311e5a1df3dc')
+    version('2.22.2', sha256='4bf96bea9f80ac85c716cd07f5fe68602db7f380f6dc2d025f17139aa0b56455')
+    version('2.22.1', sha256='e8d1de4f8c102263844886a2f2b57d82c291c1eae6307ea406fb96f29a67c3a7')
+    version('2.22',   sha256='b605555e41e9bf7e852a37b051e6a49014e561f21290680e3a60c279488d417e')
+    version('2.21',   sha256='355a32310b2fee5e7289d6d6e89eddd13275a7c85a243dc5dd293a6cb5bb047e')
+    version('2.20',   sha256='4c8b3b42cecff579f5f9de5ccad47e0849e0245e325a04ff5985c248141af1a4')
+
+    parallel = False
+
+    def url_for_version(self, version):
+        url = 'ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gengetopt/gengetopt-{0}.tar.{1}'
+        if version >= Version('2.23'):
+            suffix = 'xz'
+        else:
+            suffix = 'gz'
+        return url.format(version, suffix)