diff --git a/sys-cluster/charm/Manifest b/sys-cluster/charm/Manifest
index 240348abb4ed6..f084353a8a8bb 100644
--- a/sys-cluster/charm/Manifest
+++ b/sys-cluster/charm/Manifest
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 DIST charm-6.5.1.tar.gz 19265741 SHA256 68aa43e2a6e476e116a7e80e385c25c6ac6497807348025505ba8bfa256ed34a SHA512 1a25c76f3699e30d0614e85f39ea0f594896cbc299b0e670c52fcea176171e8834ea7f9ba3ba0c1957598b0f1cbfa6a4ed9279ae0c030fa32faa6acca879b694 WHIRLPOOL 0def514af09c137b951842250fe112c68e573e8eff7d5911a71ccbe55cc38b319f1d9c4587e706777f748b0c1ef69b63c4161bbf663b05984a566ff325fa49c3
 DIST charm-6.6.0.tar.gz 18779545 SHA256 c916010f2d4cc2c6bd30ea19764839d0298fb56d1696d8ff08d9fa9a61dfb1c9 SHA512 fd6cc2fa8919198fdceb8187101882a61fe974fed3ddd65b102c95b850877429fe0675a55d54075e4a2accad134f615ff717a7dd39fbd9af5fa65a5c87d34e0b WHIRLPOOL 97cfbb45c9456e79d3b6f868c6acfbf8c8701f87743139a17cdb25fbb3a90fdf9a137e8da04df0ab25569ca1b9307c910fe02dc61a84b247bf81d112e0547317
 DIST charm-6.6.1.tar.gz 125697465 SHA256 2aa16fd3015dce0a0932ab5253578a72ddbcb889bc0d23584c42b28446915467 SHA512 139409fff76ac9811b2efe6605579a877738f873b112d4e4da25f079598f6c238cf76e677ed3cf3f92aa59f29710feea3e96e59e6010e186e4191dfa4c3ef92e WHIRLPOOL d56dd8a2cf11152bcc8dd5d1bd166d28bebca02e81bb6fdc3de6c5bf4a6bdcd72f7b854cf42576d32d23fe994a207451ebca44ac9cf6a5d8b982d2e4141d422b
+DIST charm-6.7.1.tar.gz 18843211 SHA256 744a093874fbac03b6ae8be3ce434eff46b2ee778561e860802ed578e0810fdf SHA512 08581ad58ea737bb118ad1d382feeae2cec2ec0fd8ea1a227e2cb8080c40ba0d043de6c867de0dfa470b2291638b1b6bf6d52c89b4e4b6c9f1fdd824ac601436 WHIRLPOOL efb8de98cbef4f2842877725160aa4371f444a0901f7064cc07a184790516dda1882341cf59500506e41263eaaed2eb585f80b4f29744b680794b62f103d9c1d
diff --git a/sys-cluster/charm/charm-6.7.1.ebuild b/sys-cluster/charm/charm-6.7.1.ebuild
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..cacc25bdddba9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/sys-cluster/charm/charm-6.7.1.ebuild
@@ -0,0 +1,211 @@
+# Copyright 1999-2017 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+EAPI=5
+
+FORTRAN_STANDARD="90"
+PYTHON_COMPAT=( python2_7 )
+
+inherit eutils flag-o-matic fortran-2 multilib multiprocessing python-any-r1 toolchain-funcs
+
+DESCRIPTION="Message-passing parallel language and runtime system"
+HOMEPAGE="http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/"
+SRC_URI="http://charm.cs.uiuc.edu/distrib/${P}.tar.gz"
+
+LICENSE="charm"
+SLOT="0"
+KEYWORDS="~amd64 ~x86"
+IUSE="charmdebug charmtracing charmproduction cmkopt doc examples mlogft mpi ampi numa smp static-libs syncft tcp"
+
+RDEPEND="mpi? ( virtual/mpi )"
+DEPEND="
+	${RDEPEND}
+	doc? (
+		>=app-text/poppler-0.12.3-r3[utils]
+		dev-tex/latex2html
+		virtual/tex-base
+		$(python_gen_any_dep '
+			>=dev-python/beautifulsoup-4[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+			dev-python/lxml[${PYTHON_USEDEP}]
+		')
+		media-libs/netpbm
+		${PYTHON_DEPS}
+	)"
+
+REQUIRED_USE="
+	cmkopt? ( !charmdebug !charmtracing )
+	charmproduction? ( !charmdebug !charmtracing )"
+
+pkg_setup() {
+	use doc && python-any-r1_pkg_setup
+}
+
+get_opts() {
+	local CHARM_OPTS
+
+	# TCP instead of default UDP for socket comunication
+	# protocol
+	CHARM_OPTS+="$(usex tcp ' tcp' '')"
+
+	# enable direct SMP support using shared memory
+	CHARM_OPTS+="$(usex smp ' smp' '')"
+
+	CHARM_OPTS+="$(usex mlogft ' mlogft' '')"
+	CHARM_OPTS+="$(usex syncft ' syncft' '')"
+
+	# Build shared libraries by default.
+	CHARM_OPTS+=" --build-shared"
+
+	if use charmproduction; then
+		CHARM_OPTS+=" --with-production"
+	else
+		if use charmdebug; then
+			CHARM_OPTS+=" --enable-charmdebug"
+		fi
+
+		if use charmtracing; then
+			CHARM_OPTS+=" --enable-tracing --enable-tracing-commthread"
+		fi
+	fi
+
+	CHARM_OPTS+="$(usex numa ' --with-numa' '')"
+	echo $CHARM_OPTS
+}
+
+src_prepare() {
+	sed \
+		-e "/CMK_CF77/s:[fg]77:$(usex mpi "mpif90" "$(tc-getF77)"):g" \
+		-e "/CMK_CF90/s:f95:$(usex mpi "mpif90" "$(tc-getFC)"):g" \
+		-e "/CMK_CF90/s:\`which f90.*$::g" \
+		-e "/CMK_CXX/s:g++:$(usex mpi "mpic++" "$(tc-getCXX)"):g" \
+		-e "/CMK_CC/s:gcc:$(usex mpi "mpicc" "$(tc-getCC)"):g" \
+		-e '/CMK_F90_MODINC/s:-p:-I:g' \
+		-e "/CMK_LD/s:\"$: ${LDFLAGS} \":g" \
+		-i src/arch/$(usex mpi "mpi" "net")*-linux*/*sh || die
+	sed \
+		-e "/CMK_CF90/s:gfortran:$(usex mpi "mpif90" "$(tc-getFC)"):g" \
+		-e "/F90DIR/s:gfortran:$(usex mpi "mpif90" "$(tc-getFC)"):g" \
+		-e "/f95target/s:gfortran:$(usex mpi "mpif90" "$(tc-getFC)"):g" \
+		-e "/f95version/s:gfortran:$(usex mpi "mpif90" "$(tc-getFC)"):g" \
+		-i src/arch/common/*.sh || die
+
+	sed \
+		-e "s:-o conv-cpm:${LDFLAGS} &:g" \
+		-e "s:-o charmxi:${LDFLAGS} &:g" \
+		-e "s:-o charmrun-silent:${LDFLAGS} &:g" \
+		-e "s:-o charmrun-notify:${LDFLAGS} &:g" \
+		-e "s:-o charmrun:${LDFLAGS} &:g" \
+		-e "s:-o charmd_faceless:${LDFLAGS} &:g" \
+		-e "s:-o charmd:${LDFLAGS} &:g" \
+		-i \
+		src/scripts/Makefile \
+		src/util/charmrun-src/Makefile || die
+
+	# CMK optimization
+	use cmkopt && append-cppflags -DCMK_OPTIMIZE=1
+
+	# Fix QA notice. Filed report with upstream.
+	append-cflags -DALLOCA_H
+}
+
+src_compile() {
+	local build_version="$(usex mpi "mpi" "net")-linux$(usex amd64 "-amd64" '')"
+	local build_options="$(get_opts)"
+	#build only accepts -j from MAKEOPTS
+	local build_commandline="${build_version} ${build_options} -j$(makeopts_jobs)"
+
+	# Build charmm++ first.
+	einfo "running ./build charm++ ${build_commandline}"
+	./build charm++ ${build_commandline} || die "Failed to build charm++"
+
+	if use ampi; then
+		einfo "running ./build AMPI ${build_commandline}"
+		./build AMPI ${build_commandline} || die "Failed to build charm++"
+	fi
+
+	# make pdf/html docs
+	if use doc; then
+		emake -j1 -C doc/charm++
+	fi
+}
+
+src_test() {
+	make -C tests/charm++ test TESTOPTS="++local" || die
+}
+
+src_install() {
+	# Make charmc play well with gentoo before we move it into /usr/bin. This
+	# patch cannot be applied during src_prepare() because the charmc wrapper
+	# is used during building.
+	epatch "${FILESDIR}/charm-6.5.1-charmc-gentoo.patch"
+
+	sed -e "s|gentoo-include|${P}|" \
+		-e "s|gentoo-libdir|$(get_libdir)|g" \
+		-e "s|VERSION|${P}/VERSION|" \
+		-i ./src/scripts/charmc || die "failed patching charmc script"
+
+	# In the following, some of the files are symlinks to ../tmp which we need
+	# to dereference first (see bug 432834).
+
+	local i
+
+	# Install binaries.
+	for i in bin/*; do
+		if [[ -L ${i} ]]; then
+			i=$(readlink -e "${i}") || die
+		fi
+		dobin "${i}"
+	done
+
+	# Install headers.
+	insinto /usr/include/${P}
+	for i in include/*; do
+		if [[ -L ${i} ]]; then
+			i=$(readlink -e "${i}") || die
+		fi
+		doins "${i}"
+	done
+
+	# Install libs incl. charm objects
+	for i in lib*/*.{so,a}; do
+		[[ ${i} = *.a ]] && use !static-libs && continue
+		if [[ -L ${i} ]]; then
+			i=$(readlink -e "${i}") || die
+		fi
+		[[ ${i} = *.so ]] && dolib.so "${i}" || dolib "${i}"
+	done
+
+	# Basic docs.
+	dodoc CHANGES README
+
+	# Install examples.
+	if use examples; then
+		find examples/ -name 'Makefile' | xargs sed \
+			-r "s:(../)+bin/charmc:/usr/bin/charmc:" -i || \
+			die "Failed to fix examples"
+		find examples/ -name 'Makefile' | xargs sed \
+			-r "s:./charmrun:./charmrun ++local:" -i || \
+			die "Failed to fix examples"
+		insinto /usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples
+		doins -r examples/charm++/*
+		docompress -x /usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples
+	fi
+
+	# Install pdf/html docs
+	if use doc; then
+		cd "${S}/doc/charm++"
+		# Install pdfs.
+		insinto /usr/share/doc/${PF}/pdf
+		doins  *.pdf
+		# Install html.
+		docinto html
+		dohtml -r manual/*
+	fi
+}
+
+pkg_postinst() {
+	einfo "Please test your charm installation by copying the"
+	einfo "content of /usr/share/doc/${PF}/examples to a"
+	einfo "temporary location and run 'make test'."
+}