diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libsodium/libsodium-1.0.16-GCCcore-6.4.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libsodium/libsodium-1.0.16-GCCcore-6.4.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..d1bbd0e7c979
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/l/libsodium/libsodium-1.0.16-GCCcore-6.4.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'libsodium'
+version = '1.0.16'
+
+homepage = 'http://doc.libsodium.org/'
+
+description = """
+ Sodium is a modern, easy-to-use software library for encryption, decryption,
+ signatures, password hashing and more.
+"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '6.4.0'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = ['https://download.libsodium.org/libsodium/releases/']
+sources = [SOURCE_TAR_GZ]
+checksums = ['eeadc7e1e1bcef09680fb4837d448fbdf57224978f865ac1c16745868fbd0533']
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('binutils', '2.28'),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['include/sodium.h', 'lib/libsodium.so', 'lib/libsodium.a'],
+    'dirs': ['include/sodium', 'lib/pkgconfig'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'lib'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyZMQ/PyZMQ-17.0.0-foss-2018a-Python-2.7.14-zmq4.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyZMQ/PyZMQ-17.0.0-foss-2018a-Python-2.7.14-zmq4.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2f13ccedd896
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyZMQ/PyZMQ-17.0.0-foss-2018a-Python-2.7.14-zmq4.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+easyblock = 'PythonPackage'
+
+name = 'PyZMQ'
+version = '17.0.0'
+zmqversion = '4.2.5'
+versionsuffix = '-Python-%%(pyver)s-zmq%s' % zmqversion.split('.')[0]
+
+homepage = 'http://www.zeromq.org/bindings:python'
+description = """Python bindings for ZeroMQ"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2018a'}
+
+source_urls = [PYPI_LOWER_SOURCE]
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+
+checksums = ['0145ae59139b41f65e047a3a9ed11bbc36e37d5e96c64382fcdff911c4d8c3f0']
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '2.7.14'),
+    ('ZeroMQ', zmqversion),
+]
+
+options = {'modulename': 'zmq'}
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [],
+    'dirs': ['lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages/zmq'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'devel'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyZMQ/PyZMQ-17.0.0-foss-2018a-Python-3.6.4-zmq4.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyZMQ/PyZMQ-17.0.0-foss-2018a-Python-3.6.4-zmq4.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b0c636a6347c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/p/PyZMQ/PyZMQ-17.0.0-foss-2018a-Python-3.6.4-zmq4.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+easyblock = 'PythonPackage'
+
+name = 'PyZMQ'
+version = '17.0.0'
+zmqversion = '4.2.5'
+versionsuffix = '-Python-%%(pyver)s-zmq%s' % zmqversion.split('.')[0]
+
+homepage = 'http://www.zeromq.org/bindings:python'
+description = """Python bindings for ZeroMQ"""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2018a'}
+
+source_urls = [PYPI_LOWER_SOURCE]
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+
+checksums = ['0145ae59139b41f65e047a3a9ed11bbc36e37d5e96c64382fcdff911c4d8c3f0']
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('Python', '3.6.4'),
+    ('ZeroMQ', zmqversion),
+]
+
+options = {'modulename': 'zmq'}
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': [],
+    'dirs': ['lib/python%(pyshortver)s/site-packages/zmq'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'devel'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/u/util-linux/util-linux-2.32-GCCcore-6.4.0.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/u/util-linux/util-linux-2.32-GCCcore-6.4.0.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..3de7b38ced4f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/u/util-linux/util-linux-2.32-GCCcore-6.4.0.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,43 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'util-linux'
+version = '2.32'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux'
+
+description = "Set of Linux utilities"
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'GCCcore', 'version': '6.4.0'}
+toolchainopts = {'pic': True}
+
+source_urls = ['%s/v%%(version_major_minor)s' % homepage]
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+checksums = ['ce43afee3182f1bddb0be83f68bd378770efb9b6fdd8f464333ff8e07903db56']
+
+# disable account related utilities (they need OS dependent pam-devel files)
+# disable wall and friends (requires group changing permissions for install user)
+# install systemd service files in install dir
+# install bash completion files in install dir
+configopts = "--disable-chfn-chsh --disable-login --disable-su --disable-rfkill "
+configopts += "--disable-wall --disable-use-tty-group "
+configopts += "--disable-makeinstall-chown --disable-makeinstall-setuid "
+configopts += "--with-systemdsystemunitdir='${prefix}/systemd' "
+configopts += "--with-bashcompletiondir='${prefix}/share/bash-completion/completions' "
+# disable building Python bindings (since we don't include Python as a dep)
+configopts += "--without-python "
+
+builddependencies = [
+    ('binutils', '2.28'),
+]
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('ncurses', '6.0'),
+    ('zlib', '1.2.11'),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['lib/lib%s.a' % x for x in ['blkid', 'mount', 'uuid']],
+    'dirs': ['include', 'bin', 'share', 'sbin'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'tools'
diff --git a/easybuild/easyconfigs/z/ZeroMQ/ZeroMQ-4.2.5-foss-2018a.eb b/easybuild/easyconfigs/z/ZeroMQ/ZeroMQ-4.2.5-foss-2018a.eb
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..95dc0b6cb99f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/easybuild/easyconfigs/z/ZeroMQ/ZeroMQ-4.2.5-foss-2018a.eb
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+easyblock = 'ConfigureMake'
+
+name = 'ZeroMQ'
+version = '4.2.5'
+
+homepage = 'http://www.zeromq.org/'
+description = """ZeroMQ looks like an embeddable networking library but acts like a concurrency framework.
+ It gives you sockets that carry atomic messages across various transports like in-process,
+ inter-process, TCP, and multicast. You can connect sockets N-to-N with patterns like fanout,
+ pub-sub, task distribution, and request-reply. It's fast enough to be the fabric for clustered
+ products. Its asynchronous I/O model gives you scalable multicore applications, built as asynchronous
+ message-processing tasks. It has a score of language APIs and runs on most operating systems."""
+
+toolchain = {'name': 'foss', 'version': '2018a'}
+
+source_urls = ['https://github.com/zeromq/libzmq/releases/download/v%(version)s/']
+sources = [SOURCELOWER_TAR_GZ]
+checksums = ['cc9090ba35713d59bb2f7d7965f877036c49c5558ea0c290b0dcc6f2a17e489f']
+
+# --with-pgm will use shipped OpenPGM (in foreign subdir)
+configopts = '--with-pic --with-system-pgm '
+configopts += 'OpenPGM_CFLAGS="-I$EBROOTOPENPGM/include/pgm-${EBVERSIONOPENPGM%.*}" '
+configopts += 'OpenPGM_LIBS="-L$EBROOTOPENPGM/lib -lpgm -lrt -lpthread -lm" '
+
+dependencies = [
+    ('OpenPGM', '5.2.122'),
+    ('util-linux', '2.31.1'),
+    ('libsodium', '1.0.16'),
+]
+
+sanity_check_paths = {
+    'files': ['lib/libzmq.%s' % SHLIB_EXT, 'lib/libzmq.a'],
+    'dirs': ['include', 'lib'],
+}
+
+moduleclass = 'devel'