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+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2013-2016, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
+# Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
+#
+# This file is part of Spack.
+# Created by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
+# LLNL-CODE-647188
+#
+# For details, see https://github.com/llnl/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 Lesser General Public License (as
+# published by the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1, 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 Lesser 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 Autogen(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """AutoGen is a tool designed to simplify the creation and maintenance of
+    programs that contain large amounts of repetitious text. It is especially
+    valuable in programs that have several blocks of text that must be kept
+    synchronized."""
+
+    homepage = "https://www.gnu.org/software/autogen/index.html"
+    url      = "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen/rel5.18.12/autogen-5.18.12.tar.gz"
+    list_url = "https://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/autogen"
+    list_depth = 2
+
+    version('5.18.12', '551d15ccbf5b5fc5658da375d5003389')
+
+    variant('xml', default=True, description='Enable XML support')
+
+    depends_on('pkg-config@0.9.0:', type='build')
+
+    depends_on('guile@1.8:2.0')
+    depends_on('libxml2', when='+xml')
+
+    def configure_args(self):
+        spec = self.spec
+
+        args = [
+            # `make check` fails without this
+            # Adding a gettext dependency does not help
+            '--disable-nls',
+        ]
+
+        if '+xml' in spec:
+            args.append('--with-libxml2={0}'.format(spec['libxml2'].prefix))
+        else:
+            args.append('--without-libxml2')
+
+        return args