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+from spack import *
+
+class Caliper(Package):
+    """
+    Caliper is a generic context annotation system. It gives programmers the
+    ability to provide arbitrary program context information to (performance)
+    tools at runtime.
+    """
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/LLNL/Caliper"
+    url      = ""
+
+    version('master', git='ssh://git@cz-stash.llnl.gov:7999/piper/caliper.git')
+
+    variant('mpi', default=False, description='Enable MPI function wrappers.')
+
+    depends_on('libunwind')
+    depends_on('papi')
+    depends_on('mpi', when='+mpi')
+
+    def install(self, spec, prefix):
+      with working_dir('build', create=True):
+        cmake('..', *std_cmake_args)
+        make()
+        make("install")