Add fre-nctools package

Only includes versions that build successfully

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Co-authored-by: Micael Oliveira <[email protected]>

packages/fre-nctools/package.py

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+# Copyright Spack Project Developers. See COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# Copyright 2025 ACCESS-NRI
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class FreNctools(AutotoolsPackage):
+    """FRE-NCtools is a collection of tools for creating grids and mosaics
+    commonly used in climate and weather models, the remapping of data among
+    grids, and the creation and manipulation of netCDF files. These tools were
+    largely written by members of the GFDL Modeling Systems Group primarily for
+    use in the Flexible Modeling System (FMS) Runtime Environment (FRE)
+    supporting the work of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL)."""
+
+    homepage = "https://github.com/NOAA-GFDL/FRE-NCtools"
+    git = "https://github.com/NOAA-GFDL/FRE-NCtools.git"
+
+    maintainers("dougiesquire")
+
+    license("LGPL-3.0-only")
+
+    # A number of versions are excluded from this spack package due to bugs:
+    # - 2024.05.01: see https://github.com/NOAA-GFDL/FRE-NCtools/issues/344
+    # - 2024.03: implicit funcion delcaration in mppncscatter.c; fixed in edcdf78
+    # - 2024.01: implicit function declaration in make_topog.c; fixed in 6b4d2fb
+    # - 2023.01.02: implicit function declaration in make_topog.c; fixed in 6b4d2fb
+    # - 2023.01.01: implicit function declaration in make_topog.c; fixed in 6b4d2fb
+    # - 2023.01: implicit function declaration in make_topog.c; fixed in 6b4d2fb
+
+    version("main", branch="main")
+    version("2024.05", sha256="61cec52aa03e066b64bed794ef9dc3eb28654c3d1b872aef1b69ce99ef7a9c65")
+    version("2024.04", sha256="e27346d7ade1b67af163bb7f327a47a288d5e475fe797323bd7cee3a46385de0")
+    version("2024.02", sha256="90d52abc1b467d635dd648185b0046efcc6d58a232143b0ccaf9a0bff23d2f5d")
+    version("2022.02", sha256="bd90c9c3becdb19ff408c0915e61141376e81c12651a5c1b054c75ced9a73ad2")
+
+    variant("mpi", default=False, description="Builds with MPI support")
+
+    depends_on("autoconf", type="build")
+    depends_on("automake", type="build")
+    depends_on("libtool", type="build")
+    depends_on("netcdf-c")
+    depends_on("netcdf-fortran")
+    depends_on("mpi", when="+mpi")
+    depends_on("nco", when="@2024.05:")
+
+    def url_for_version(self, version):
+        return "https://github.com/NOAA-GFDL/FRE-NCtools/archive/{0}.tar.gz".format(version)
+
+    def configure_args(self):
+        spec = self.spec
+        args = []
+
+        # ocean_model_grid_generator subproject removed in 2023.01
+        if spec.version <= Version("2022.02"):
+            args.append("--disable-ocean-model-grid-generator")
+
+        if "+mpi" in spec:
+            args.append("--with-mpi")
+
+        return args