mysql-build - provides a command to compile and install different versions of MySQL.
The overall structure is loosly borrowed from Sam Stephenson's ruby-build.
git clone git://github.com/kamipo/mysql-build.git ~/mysql-build
export PATH="$HOME/mysql-build/bin:$PATH"
mkdir -p ~/opt/mysql
mysql-build -v 5.7.10 ~/opt/mysql/mysql-5.7.10
cd ~/opt/mysql/mysql-5.7.10
./bin/mysqld --initialize-insecure --basedir=.
./bin/mysqld_safe &
./bin/mysql -e 'SELECT @@version'