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+# Copyright 2013-2019 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 Libeatmydata(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """libeatmydata is a small LD_PRELOAD library designed to (transparently)
+    disable fsync (and friends, like open(O_SYNC)). This has two side-effects:
+    making software that writes data safely to disk a lot quicker and making
+    this software no longer crash safe."""
+
+    homepage = "https://www.flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/"
+    url      = "https://www.flamingspork.com/projects/libeatmydata/libeatmydata-105.tar.gz"
+
+    version('105', sha256='bdd2d068b6b27cf47cd22aa4c5da43b3d4a05944cfe0ad1b0d843d360ed3a8dd')
+
+    depends_on('strace', type='test')
+
+    def check(self):
+        # Tests must run in serial
+        make('check', parallel=False)