Add install-cmake-binary.sh

tribits/devtools_install/install-cmake-binary.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+#!/bin/bash -e
+#
+# Install CMake from binary download:
+#
+#   instal-cmake-binary <cmake-version> <install-prefix-base>
+#
+# For example, running:
+#
+#   instal-cmake-binary 4.0.0-rc2  ${HOME}/install
+#
+# will download the install binary to:
+#
+#  /tmp/${USER}/
+#
+# and then install CMake from that binary to:
+#
+#  ${HOME}/install/cmake-4.0.0-rc2/
+#
+#  
+
+# Input args
+cmake_version=$1
+install_prefix_base=$2
+
+# Names and locations
+cmake_download_url=https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download
+CMAKE_BINARY_TMP_DIR=/tmp/${USER}
+cmake_install_script_name=cmake-${cmake_version}-Linux-x86_64.sh
+cmake_install_script=${CMAKE_BINARY_TMP_DIR}/${cmake_install_script_name}
+cmake_install_dir=${install_prefix_base}/cmake-${cmake_version}
+
+if [[ ! -d ${CMAKE_BINARY_TMP_DIR} ]] ; then
+  echo
+  echo "Creating temp dir ${CMAKE_BINARY_TMP_DIR}"
+fi
+
+echo
+echo "Downloading ${cmake_install_script_name} to ${cmake_install_script} ..."
+time wget -O ${cmake_install_script} \
+  ${cmake_download_url}/v${cmake_version}/${cmake_install_script_name}
+chmod a+x ${cmake_install_script}
+
+if [[ ! -d ${cmake_install_dir} ]] ; then
+  echo
+  echo "Create install dir ${cmake_install_dir}"
+  mkdir ${cmake_install_dir}
+fi
+
+echo
+echo "Installing binary using ${cmake_install_script} ..."
+time ${cmake_install_script} --skip-license --prefix=${cmake_install_dir} \
+  --exclude-subdir
+
+echo
+echo "See the binaries installed under:"
+echo
+echo "    ${cmake_install_dir}/"

tribits/doc/build_ref/TribitsBuildReferenceBody.rst

@@ -36,10 +36,27 @@ that once CMake is installed that it will be in the default path with the name
 Installing a binary release of CMake [casual users]
 ---------------------------------------------------
 
-Download and install the binary (version <MinCMakeVer> or greater is
-recommended) from:
+Download and install the CMake binaries (version ``<MinCMakeVer>`` or greater
+is recommended) from:
 
-  http://www.cmake.org/cmake/resources/software.html
+  https://cmake.org/download/
+
+Use the following script to automate the download and install (on Linux) of
+any tagged version of CMake from the CMake GitHub repo::
+
+  $ cd <some-scratch-space>/
+  $ TRIBITS_BASE_DIR=<tribits-base-dir>/tribits
+  $ $TRIBITS_BASE_DIR/devtools_install/install-cmake-binary.sh \
+     <cmake-version> <install-base-dir>
+
+For example, to install CMake ``4.0.0-rc4`` under ``${HOME}/install``, run::
+
+  $ $TRIBITS_BASE_DIR/devtools_install/install-cmake-binary.sh \
+     4.0.0-rc4 ${HOME}/install
+
+That installs the CMake binaries under::
+
+  ${HOME}/install/cmake-4.0.0-rc4/bin/
 
 
 Installing CMake from source [developers and experienced users]
@@ -49,7 +66,7 @@ If you have access to the <Project> git repositories (which which includes a
 snapshot of TriBITS), then install CMake with::
 
   $ cd <some-scratch-space>/
-  $ TRIBITS_BASE_DIR=<project-base-dir>/cmake/tribits
+  $ TRIBITS_BASE_DIR=<tribits-base-dir>/tribits
   $ $TRIBITS_BASE_DIR/devtools_install/install-cmake.py \
      --install-dir-base=<INSTALL_BASE_DIR> --cmake-version=X.Y.Z \
      --do-all