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+# Copyright 2013-2018 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 Lastz(MakefilePackage):
+    """LASTZ is a program for aligning DNA sequences, a pairwise aligner."""
+
+    homepage = "https://lastz.github.io/lastz"
+    url      = "https://github.com/lastz/lastz/archive/1.04.00.tar.gz"
+
+    version('1.04.00', sha256='a4c2c7a77430387e96dbc9f5bdc75874334c672be90f5720956c0f211abf9f5a')
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+        make('install', 'LASTZ_INSTALL={0}'.format(prefix.bin))