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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 Gdbm(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """GNU dbm (or GDBM, for short) is a library of database functions
+    that use extensible hashing and work similar to the standard UNIX dbm.
+    These routines are provided to a programmer needing to create and
+    manipulate a hashed database."""
+
+    homepage = "http://www.gnu.org.ua/software/gdbm/gdbm.html"
+    url      = "ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gdbm/gdbm-1.13.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.13',  '8929dcda2a8de3fd2367bdbf66769376')
+    version('1.12',  '9ce96ff4c99e74295ea19040931c8fb9')
+    version('1.11',  '72c832680cf0999caedbe5b265c8c1bd')
+    version('1.10',  '88770493c2559dc80b561293e39d3570')
+    version('1.9.1', '59f6e4c4193cb875964ffbe8aa384b58')
+    version('1.9',   '1f0e8e6691edd61bdd6b697b8c02528d')
+
+    def configure_args(self):
+        return ['--enable-libgdbm-compat']