[CMake] How to rename the resulting Makefile.

[Bill Hoffman]

On 10/12/2010 11:52 AM, william.crocker at analog.com wrote:
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>>>>> 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.
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>>> I still think Qt/qmake was right in providing the ability to change
>>> the name of the Makefile. Before I discovered that, I could not use
>>> the qmake system.
>>
>> I agree that it would be a good feature to be able to change the name
>> of generated
>> makefiles, but if you dig the ML you'll see that **after discussion**
>> there is not
>> so many **useful** cases to do that.
>>
>> But you home-brewed Makefile is not cross-platform which is one of the
>> primary target for using CMake :-]
>>
>
> I will use cmake to build the app on my various platforms
> (Linux/Windows...).
> Most of my convenience targets are only used during development (Linux)
> so it is typically okay that they are not cross platform.
>
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>> file(xxxx ...) commands
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>
> Yes I see.
> But if I had the ability to change the name of the Makefile I could
> start using cmake right now. If I have to rewrite my entire makefile
> the cmake way (all or nothing) it will take weeks.
>
> Anyway. I understand. We can leave it at that.
>
> Thanks for all the help.
>
You might want to look at ExternalProject to just using custom commands 
to run the old build system.

-Bill