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+##############################################################################
+# Copyright (c) 2018 Simone Bna, CINECA.
+#
+# This file was authored by Simone Bna <simone.bna@cineca.it>
+# and is released as part of spack under the LGPL license.
+# LLNL-CODE-647188
+#
+# For details, see https://github.com/spack/spack
+# Please also see the NOTICE and LICENSE files for the LLNL notice and LGPL.
+#
+#
+# For details, see https://github.com/spack/spack
+# Please also see the NOTICE and LICENSE files 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 *
+import os
+import subprocess
+import llnl.util.tty as tty
+
+
+class Catalyst(CMakePackage):
+    """Catalyst is an in situ use case library, with an adaptable application
+    programming interface (API), that orchestrates the alliance between
+    simulation and analysis and/or visualization tasks."""
+
+    homepage = 'http://www.paraview.org'
+    url      = "http://www.paraview.org/files/v5.4/ParaView-v5.4.1.tar.gz"
+    _urlfmt  = 'http://www.paraview.org/files/v{0}/ParaView-v{1}{2}.tar.gz'
+
+    version('5.4.1', '4030c70477ec5a85aa72d6fc86a30753')
+    version('5.4.0', 'b92847605bac9036414b644f33cb7163')
+    version('5.3.0', '68fbbbe733aa607ec13d1db1ab5eba71')
+    version('5.2.0', '4570d1a2a183026adb65b73c7125b8b0')
+    version('5.1.2', '44fb32fc8988fcdfbc216c9e40c3e925')
+    version('5.0.1', 'fdf206113369746e2276b95b257d2c9b')
+    version('4.4.0', 'fa1569857dd680ebb4d7ff89c2227378')
+
+    variant('python', default=False, description='Enable Python support')
+    variant('essentials', default=False, description='Enable Essentials support')
+    variant('extras', default=False, description='Enable Extras support')
+    variant('rendering', default=False, description='Enable Vtk Rendering support')
+
+    depends_on('git')
+    depends_on('mpi')
+    depends_on('python@2:2.8', when='+python')
+    depends_on('mesa', when='+rendering')
+    depends_on("libx11", when='+rendering')
+    depends_on("libxt", when='+rendering')
+    depends_on('cmake@3.3:', type='build')
+
+    def url_for_version(self, version):
+        """Handle ParaView version-based custom URLs."""
+        if version < Version('5.1.0'):
+            return self._urlfmt.format(version.up_to(2), version, '-source')
+        else:
+            return self._urlfmt.format(version.up_to(2), version, '')
+
+    def do_stage(self, mirror_only=False):
+        """Unpacks and expands the fetched tarball.
+        Then, generate the catalyst source files."""
+        super(Catalyst, self).do_stage(mirror_only)
+
+        # extract the catalyst part
+        paraview_dir = os.path.join(self.stage.path,
+                                    'ParaView-v' + str(self.version))
+        catalyst_script = os.path.join(paraview_dir, 'Catalyst', 'catalyze.py')
+        catalyst_source_dir = os.path.abspath(self.root_cmakelists_dir)
+
+        command = ['python', catalyst_script,
+                   '-r', paraview_dir]
+
+        catalyst_edition = os.path.join(paraview_dir, 'Catalyst',
+                                        'Editions', 'Base')
+        command.append('-i')
+        command.append(catalyst_edition)
+        if '+python' in self.spec:
+            catalyst_edition = os.path.join(paraview_dir, 'Catalyst',
+                                            'Editions', 'Enable-Python')
+            command.append('-i')
+            command.append(catalyst_edition)
+        if '+essentials' in self.spec:
+            catalyst_edition = os.path.join(paraview_dir, 'Catalyst',
+                                            'Editions', 'Essentials')
+            command.append('-i')
+            command.append(catalyst_edition)
+        if '+extras' in self.spec:
+            catalyst_edition = os.path.join(paraview_dir, 'Catalyst',
+                                            'Editions', 'Extras')
+            command.append('-i')
+            command.append(catalyst_edition)
+        if '+rendering' in self.spec:
+            catalyst_edition = os.path.join(paraview_dir, 'Catalyst',
+                                            'Editions', 'Rendering-Base')
+            command.append('-i')
+            command.append(catalyst_edition)
+
+        command.append('-o')
+        command.append(catalyst_source_dir)
+
+        if not os.path.isdir(catalyst_source_dir):
+            os.mkdir(catalyst_source_dir)
+            subprocess.check_call(command)
+            tty.msg("Generated catalyst source in %s" % self.stage.path)
+        else:
+            tty.msg("Already generated %s in %s" % (self.name,
+                                                    self.stage.path))
+
+    def setup_environment(self, spack_env, run_env):
+        if os.path.isdir(self.prefix.lib64):
+            lib_dir = self.prefix.lib64
+        else:
+            lib_dir = self.prefix.lib
+        paraview_version = 'paraview-%s' % self.spec.version.up_to(2)
+        run_env.prepend_path('LIBRARY_PATH', join_path(lib_dir,
+                             paraview_version))
+        run_env.prepend_path('LD_LIBRARY_PATH', join_path(lib_dir,
+                             paraview_version))
+
+    @property
+    def root_cmakelists_dir(self):
+        """The relative path to the directory containing CMakeLists.txt
+
+        This path is relative to the root of the extracted tarball,
+        not to the ``build_directory``. Defaults to the current directory.
+
+        :return: directory containing CMakeLists.txt
+        """
+        return os.path.join(self.stage.path, 'Catalyst-v' + str(self.version))
+
+    @property
+    def build_directory(self):
+        """Returns the directory to use when building the package
+
+        :return: directory where to build the package
+        """
+        return join_path(os.path.abspath(self.root_cmakelists_dir),
+                         'spack-build')
+
+    def cmake_args(self):
+        """Populate cmake arguments for Catalyst."""
+        cmake_args = [
+            '-DPARAVIEW_GIT_DESCRIBE=v%s' % str(self.version)
+        ]
+        return cmake_args
+
+    def cmake(self, spec, prefix):
+        """Runs ``cmake`` in the build directory through the cmake.sh script"""
+        cmake_script_path = os.path.join(
+            os.path.abspath(self.root_cmakelists_dir),
+            'cmake.sh')
+        with working_dir(self.build_directory, create=True):
+            subprocess.check_call([cmake_script_path,
+                                   os.path.abspath(self.root_cmakelists_dir)] +
+                                  self.cmake_args() + self.std_cmake_args)