This seems to work just fine.

Author: Dilawar Singh

CMakeLists.txt

@@ -1,27 +1,17 @@
 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8 FATAL_ERROR)
 project(MOOSE)
 
-set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake_modules")
+set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake")
 include(CheckCXXCompiler.cmake)
 include(CheckIncludeFileCXX)
+include(FindPythonModule)
 
-# getgit revision number
-find_program( GIT_EXEC git )
-if(GIT_EXEC)
-    execute_process(
-        COMMAND ${GIT_EXEC} rev-parse --short HEAD
-        OUTPUT_VARIABLE GIT_HEAD
-        OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE
-    )
-else(GIT_EXEC)
-    set(GIT_HEAD 'HEAD')
-    message(STATUS "Couldn't fetch version from git repo" )
-endif()
 
+string(TIMESTAMP STAMP "%Y%m%d")
 # If from command line, version info is not passed, use the git to generate a
 # version file. If GIT fails, use the previous known version.
 if(NOT VERSION_MOOSE)
-    set(VERSION_MOOSE "3.2.0-${GIT_HEAD}")
+  set(VERSION_MOOSE "3.2.dev${STAMP}")
 endif()
 
 add_definitions( -DMOOSE_VERSION="${VERSION_MOOSE}")
@@ -376,9 +366,8 @@ endif()
 install(TARGETS moose.bin DESTINATION bin CONFIGURATIONS Debug)
 install(TARGETS libmoose DESTINATION lib CONFIGURATIONS Debug)
 
-install(CODE "execute_process(COMMAND ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE} setup.py install --skip-build
-  WORKING_DIRECTORY ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR})"
-  CONFIGURATION Debug Release)
+# NOTE: Install macro for _moose (pymoose) has been moved to
+# pymoose/CMakeLists.txt file.
 
 # Print message to start build process
 if(${CMAKE_BUILD_TOOL} MATCHES "make")

cmake_modules/FindGSL.cmake renamed to cmake/FindGSL.cmake

@@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
+# This is from https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2011-January/041666.html
+function(find_python_module module)
+  string(TOUPPER ${module} module_upper)
+  if(NOT PY_${module_upper})
+    if(ARGC GREATER 1 AND ARGV1 STREQUAL "REQUIRED")
+      set(${module}_FIND_REQUIRED TRUE)
+    endif()
+    # A module's location is usually a directory, but for binary modules
+    # it's a .so file.
+    execute_process(COMMAND "${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE}" "-c" 
+      "import re, ${module}; print re.compile('/__init__.py.*').sub('',${module}.__file__)"
+      RESULT_VARIABLE _${module}_status 
+      OUTPUT_VARIABLE _${module}_location
+      ERROR_QUIET OUTPUT_STRIP_TRAILING_WHITESPACE)
+    if(NOT _${module}_status)
+      set(PY_${module_upper} ${_${module}_location} CACHE STRING 
+        "Location of Python module ${module}")
+    endif(NOT _${module}_status)
+  endif(NOT PY_${module_upper})
+  find_package_handle_standard_args(PY_${module} DEFAULT_MSG PY_${module_upper})
+endfunction(find_python_module)