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-##
-# This file is an EasyBuild reciPY as per https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild
-#
-# Copyright:: Copyright 2012-2023 Uni.Lu/LCSB, NTUA
-# Authors::   Josh Berryman <the.real.josh.berryman@gmail.com>, Fotis Georgatos <fotis@cern.ch>, Kenneth Hoste
-# License::   MIT/GPL
-# $Id$
-#
-# This work implements a part of the HPCBIOS project and is a component of the policy:
-# http://hpcbios.readthedocs.org/en/latest/HPCBIOS_2012-80.html
-##
-"""
-EasyBuild support for building and installing ESPResSo, implemented as an easyblock
-
-@author: Josh Berryman <the.real.josh.berryman@gmail.com>
-@author: Fotis Georgatos (Uni.Lu)
-@author: Kenneth Hoste (Ghent University)
-"""
-import os
-
-from easybuild.easyblocks.generic.configuremake import ConfigureMake
-from easybuild.framework.easyconfig import CUSTOM
-from easybuild.tools.run import run_cmd
-
-
-class EB_ESPResSo(ConfigureMake):
-    """Support for building/installing ESPResSo, parallel version."""
-
-    def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
-        """Specify to build in install dir."""
-        super(EB_ESPResSo, self).__init__(*args, **kwargs)
-
-        self.build_in_installdir = True
-        self.install_subdir = '%s-%s' % (self.name.lower(), self.version)
-
-    @staticmethod
-    def extra_options():
-        extra_vars = {
-            'runtest': [True, "Run ESPResSo tests.", CUSTOM],
-        }
-        return ConfigureMake.extra_options(extra_vars)
-
-    def test_step(self):
-        """Custom built-in test procedure for ESPResSo, parallel version."""
-
-        if self.cfg['runtest']:
-            cmd = './runtest.sh -p 2 *.tcl'
-            (out, ec) = run_cmd(cmd, simple=False, log_all=False, log_ok=False, path="testsuite")
-
-            if ec:
-                # ESPResSo fails many of its tests in version 3.1.1, and the test script itself is buggy
-                # so, just provide output in log file, but ignore things if it fails
-                self.log.warning("ESPResSo test failed (exit code: %s): %s" % (ec, out))
-            else:
-                self.log.info("Successful ESPResSo test completed: %s" % out)
-
-    def install_step(self):
-        """Build is done in install dir, so no separate install step."""
-        pass
-
-    def sanity_check_step(self):
-        """Custom sanity check for ESPResSo."""
-
-        custom_paths = {
-            'files': [os.path.join(self.install_subdir, 'Espresso')],
-            'dirs': [os.path.join(self.install_subdir, x) for x in ['samples', 'scripts', 'tools']],
-        }
-
-        super(EB_ESPResSo, self).sanity_check_step(custom_paths=custom_paths)
-
-    def make_module_req_guess(self):
-        """Customize PATH for ESPResSo."""
-
-        guesses = super(EB_ESPResSo, self).make_module_req_guess()
-
-        guesses.update({'PATH': [self.install_subdir]})
-
-        return guesses