[CMake] How to rename the resulting Makefile.

william.crocker at analog.com william.crocker at analog.com
Tue Oct 12 10:17:41 EDT 2010


Hello:

I'm a newbie cmake user and would like to rename the makefile
produced by running cmake.

I have searched the doc, mailinglist-archive and web,
but to no avail.

This is useful because:

1 - It provides a convenient way to slowly transition form
     existing makefiles to the use of cmake.

2 - I fill my makefiles full of all sorts of convenient
     targets like the following and I do not want to have
     to figure out how to do them in cmake.

        grep :
            @-for c in ${COMPONENTS} ; do \
                 echo "################ grep:" $$c; \
                 ( cd ./$$c; grep -i xyz *.h *.c *.cc ) ; \
              done

This is possible with Qt/qmake:
     MAKEFILE = xyz.make

Obviously I could issue an OS command to rename the
makefile, but that is an extra step which would be forgotten,
varies from OS to OS and would clobber my real makefile
which is named Makefile.

So, is there a command I can place in my CMakeLists.txt files
which will cause them to produce a file named xyz.make (let's say)
instead of Makefile.

Thanks in advance.

Bill


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