[CMake] choosing a different name for generated Makefiles

[Brad King]

Graham Clark wrote:
> I was wondering if cmake or the Makefile generator allows the user to
> choose the name of the Makefiles that are written out. For example,
> Makefile.cmake instead of Makefile? Hope I didn't miss this somewhere
> obvious - I didn't see it in the cmake book.

This is not currently possible, but it doesn't sound like a bad idea. 
Please submit it as a feature request here:

http://www.cmake.org/Bug

For now, if you do an out-of-source build then it won't matter what the 
Makefile is called because it won't conflict with files in the source tree.

-Brad