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+"""
+Easybuild support for building and installing BLIS, implemented as an easyblock
+
+@author: Pua Cheng Xuan Frederick (National University of Singapore)
+"""
+from easybuild.easyblocks.generic.configuremake import ConfigureMake
+from easybuild.tools.systemtools import get_shared_lib_ext
+from easybuild.framework.easyconfig import CUSTOM
+from easybuild.tools.systemtools import get_cpu_arch_name
+
+
+class EB_BLIS(ConfigureMake):
+    """Custom easyblock for BLIS"""
+
+    @staticmethod
+    def extra_options():
+        """Custom easyconfig parameters for BLIS easyblock."""
+        extra_vars = {
+            'enable_cblas': [True, "Enable CBLAS", CUSTOM],
+            'enable_shared': [True, "Enable builing shared library", CUSTOM],
+            'multi_threading_type': ["openmp", "Type of multithreading to use", CUSTOM],
+        }
+
+        return ConfigureMake.extra_options(extra_vars)
+
+    def configure_step(self):
+        """Custom configure step for BLIS."""
+        if self.cfg['cblas_enable']:
+            self.cfg.update('configopts', '--enable-cblas')
+
+        if self.cfg['shared_enable']:
+            self.cfg.update('configopts', '--enable-shared')
+
+        # arch_name will only be available when archspec is available to easybuild, else arch_name will be unknown
+        arch_name = get_cpu_arch_name()
+        if arch_name == "a64fx":
+            self.cfg.update('configopts', 'CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -DCACHE_SECTOR_SIZE_READONLY"')
+
+        self.cfg.update('configopts', '--enable-threading=%s CC="$CC" auto' % self.cfg['multi_threading_type'])
+
+        super(EB_BLIS, self).configure_step()
+
+    def sanity_check_step(self):
+        """Custom sanity check for BLIS"""
+        shlib_ext = get_shared_lib_ext()
+
+        custom_paths = {
+            'files': ['include/blis/cblas.h', 'include/blis/blis.h',
+                      'lib/libblis.a', 'lib/libblis.%s' % shlib_ext],
+            'dirs': [],
+        }
+        return super(EB_BLIS, self).sanity_check_step(custom_paths=custom_paths)