[CMake] A configure script solution

[J]

Greetings all!

I've been sold on cmake. From what I gather, it's hands down better than
automake and family. However, I do have a problem with not having a
configure script.

A couple of the main benefits of having a configure script are letting
the user/package maintainer choose portions of a project to compile or
exclude from compilation, as well as choosing alternate locations for
libraries/includes/installations, both of which are rather important.

Without a configure script all package maintainers for red hat/fedora,
debian/ubuntu, etc will have to learn all the ins and outs of cmake and
spend oodles of time setting variables and passing -D switches to cmake.

So my question to everyone is, is there already a replacement configure
system/script that mimics or replaces the configure scripts created by
autotools?

The KDE folks wrote a very simple configure script by hand it seems,
which replaces rudimentary options such as --libdir and such, which is a
start but not nearly complete enough to actually replace autoconf's
configure scripts.

Thanks in advance for any information you can provide.

j