diff --git a/.ci/spack_packages/c_lime/package.py b/.ci/spack_packages/c_lime/package.py
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..cc55474bb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.ci/spack_packages/c_lime/package.py
@@ -0,0 +1,41 @@
+# Copyright Spack Project Developers. See COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack_repo.builtin.build_systems import cmake
+from spack_repo.builtin.build_systems.cmake import CMakePackage, generator
+
+from spack.package import *
+
+
+class CLime(CMakePackage):
+    """LIME (which can stand for Lattice QCD Interchange Message Encapsulation
+    or more generally, Large Internet Message Encapsulation) is a simple
+    packaging scheme for combining records containing ASCII and/or binary
+    data."""
+
+    homepage = "https://usqcd-software.github.io/c-lime/"
+    url = "https://github.com/usqcd-software/c-lime/archive/qio2-3-9.tar.gz"
+    git = "https://github.com/usqcd-software/c-lime.git"
+
+    license("GPL-2.0-or-later")
+
+    version(
+        "2-3-9",
+        sha256="7b9aeadd4dfec50e24da3e7e729f56abf95c9192612c41515fe27b2158773aac",
+    )
+    version("master", branch="master")
+
+    variant("pic", default=True, description="Enable position independent code")
+    variant("shared", default=True, description="Enable shared libraries")
+
+    depends_on("c", type="build")  # generated
+
+
+class CMakeBuilder(cmake.CMakeBuilder):
+    def cmake_args(self):
+        args = [
+            self.define_from_variant("BUILD_SHARED_LIBS", "shared"),
+            self.define_from_variant("CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE", "pic"),
+        ]
+        return args
diff --git a/.ci/spack_packages/lemonio/package.py b/.ci/spack_packages/lemonio/package.py
index a3e66f64e..f1c7709f4 100644
--- a/.ci/spack_packages/lemonio/package.py
+++ b/.ci/spack_packages/lemonio/package.py
@@ -8,22 +8,29 @@
 
 from spack.package import *
 
+
 class Lemonio(CMakePackage):
     """LEMON: Lightweight Parallel I/O library for Lattice QCD."""
 
     homepage = "https://github.com/etmc/lemon"
-    git      = "https://github.com/etmc/lemon.git"
+    git = "https://github.com/etmc/lemon.git"
     license("GPL-3.0-or-later")
 
-    version('master', branch='master')
+    version("master", branch="master")
+
+    variant("pic", default=True, description="Enable position independent code")
+    variant("shared", default=False, description="Enable sahred libraries")
 
     depends_on("c", type="build")
     depends_on("cxx", type="build")
     depends_on("fortran", type="build")
 
-    depends_on('mpi')
+    depends_on("mpi")
     generator("ninja")
 
     def configure_args(self):
-        args = []
+        args = [
+            self.define_from_variant("CMAKE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE", "pic"),
+            self.define_from_variant("BUILD_SHARED_LIBS", "shared"),
+        ]
         return args
diff --git a/.ci/spack_packages/tmlqcd/package.py b/.ci/spack_packages/tmlqcd/package.py
index ac318ab36..d9f6036bf 100755
--- a/.ci/spack_packages/tmlqcd/package.py
+++ b/.ci/spack_packages/tmlqcd/package.py
@@ -76,7 +76,7 @@ class Tmlqcd(CMakePackage, CudaPackage, ROCmPackage):
     conflicts("+cuda +rocm", msg="CUDA and ROCm support are mutually exclusive")
 
     # hard dependencies
-    depends_on("c-lime")
+    depends_on("c-lime@master")
     depends_on("blas")
     depends_on("lapack")
     depends_on("pkgconfig", type="build")
diff --git a/.ci/uenv-recipes/tmlqcd/daint-gh200/config.yaml b/.ci/uenv-recipes/tmlqcd/daint-gh200/config.yaml
index 6a54a230d..29fdf2a39 100644
--- a/.ci/uenv-recipes/tmlqcd/daint-gh200/config.yaml
+++ b/.ci/uenv-recipes/tmlqcd/daint-gh200/config.yaml
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ spack:
   commit: releases/v1.1
   packages:
     repo: https://github.com/spack/spack-packages.git
-    #commit: 
+    commit: 60ca28b3565975d530f7c4645cc25670b7365de2 
 modules: true
 description: "tmLQCD dependencies for CSCS CI on GH200."
 version: 2
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index c32101132..a4895774f 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ if(TM_USE_LEMON)
   FetchContent_Declare(
     lemon
     GIT_REPOSITORY https://github.com/etmc/lemon
-    GIT_TAG 52cc2bf9cf9ac6f8f9566e9625dced3bccd40b43
+    GIT_TAG e40cda10d18284795f840a04ecbb4d63007fee3d
     FIND_PACKAGE_ARGS NAMES lemon)
   FetchContent_MakeAvailable(lemon)
 endif()