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+# Copyright 2013-2021 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 Libcyaml(MakefilePackage):
+    """LibCYAML is a C library for reading and writing structured YAML
+    documents. It is written in ISO C11 and licensed under the ISC licence."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/tlsa/libcyaml"
+    url      = "https://github.com/tlsa/libcyaml/archive/v1.1.0.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.1.0', sha256='37a00ed8ec206b60a712acfd44196bef063b8f02e376d8e86f61a7007a81daea')
+
+    depends_on('libyaml')
+
+    def build(self, spec, prefix):
+        make('VARIANT=release')
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        make('install', 'VARIANT=release', 'PREFIX={0}'.format(prefix))