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+name = 'CPMD'
+version = '4.3'
+versionsuffix = '_MIT'
+
+homepage = 'https://github.com/CPMD-code'
+description = """The CPMD code is a parallelized plane wave / pseudopotential
+implementation of Density Functional Theory, particularly designed for
+ab-initio molecular dynamics. This is version 4.3 released under MIT licence in January 2023.
+"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'intel-para', 'version': '2022a'}
+toolchainopts = {'usempi': True}
+
+sources = [
+    {'download_filename':'archive/refs/tags/%(version)s.tar.gz', 'filename':'cpmd-4.3MIT.tar.gz'},
+    'cpmd4.3_manual.pdf',
+]
+
+source_urls = [
+    'https://github.com/CPMD-code/CPMD',
+]
+
+patches = [
+    'cppflags.patch',
+    '%(namelower)s-v%(version)s-config.patch'
+]
+
+
+
+# the cpmd.py post-cleanup of the results of the configure step 
+# is rather error-prone
+
+preconfigopts = 'pwd && chmod u+x scripts/configure.sh && '
+
+prefix_opt = '-DEST='
+
+MIT = True 
+
+postinstallcmds = [
+    'rm -rf %(installdir)s/obj',
+    'mkdir %(installdir)s/doc',
+    'cp %(builddir)s/cpmd4.3_manual.pdf %(installdir)s/doc'
+]
+
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['bin/cpmd.x', 'lib/libcpmd.a'],
+    'dirs': ['bin', 'lib'],
+}
+
+modloadmsg = 'MPI-Version: cpmd.x \n'
+
+moduleclass = 'chem'