git-corectrl.sh - Easily download, build and install latest CoreCtrl master from Gitlab

git-corectrl.sh

#!/bin/bash
# git-corectrl.sh
# Easily download, build and install latest CoreCtrl master from Gitlab
# Created 2023-04-24 - updated 2023-05-04
# Written for Siduction (Debian sid based distro)
# By dpanter https://gist.github.com/dpanter
# make install requires elevated privileges

PROJECT="corectrl"
RUNDATE="`date +%Y%m%d`"
COMMIT="`curl -v --silent https://gitlab.com/corectrl/corectrl/-/commits/master 2>&1 | grep -m 1 'href="/corectrl/corectrl/-/commit/' | awk -F"/commit/" '{print $2}' | cut -c 1-8`"


# check if project/commit dir already exists, wildcarded rundate. if no match, download/build project
if [ ! -n "$(/bin/ls -d $PROJECT-*-$COMMIT)" ]; then
   git clone https://gitlab.com/corectrl/corectrl.git $PROJECT-$RUNDATE-$COMMIT
   cd $PROJECT-$RUNDATE-$COMMIT
   mkdir build
   cd build
   cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/usr -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUILD_TESTING=OFF ..
   # change -j parameter to desired number of cpu cores to use
   make -j 6
   sudo make install

# if project/commit dir already exists, print message and quit
else
   echo "Directory for latest commit already exists: $(/bin/ls -d $PROJECT-*-$COMMIT)"
   echo "No actions taken this run."
fi