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+#!/bin/sh
+# sit class file
+#
+# Christoph Niethammer <niethammer@hlrs.de> (C) 2019
+#
+
+CATEGORY="performance"
+PACKAGE="tau"
+VERSION="2.28.2"
+URL="https://www.cs.uoregon.edu/research/pdt/"
+INSTALLER="Christoph Niethammer <niethammer@hlrs.de>"
+
+# Archive A and package name P
+A="$PACKAGE-$VERSION.tar.gz"
+P="$PACKAGE-$VERSION"
+
+BUILDDIR=$SRCDIR
+
+module load performance/pdt/3.25.1
+module load performance/papi/5.7.0
+
+src_configure() {
+     ${SRCDIR}/configure \
+        -bfd=download \
+        -dwarf=download \
+        -unwind=download \
+        -iowrapper \
+        -c++=$MPICXX \
+        -cc=$MPICC \
+        -fortran=$MPIFC \
+        -mpi \
+        -ompt \
+        -openmp \
+        -papi=$PAPI_ROOT \
+        -pdt=$PDT_ROOT \
+        -prefix=$PREFIX
+}
+
+src_unpack() {
+	# extract source package
+	unpack
+	# unpack the external dependency package into SRCDIR
+	tar xf ${SRC_POOL}/ext.tgz  -C $SRCDIR
+}