cmake is both much more and somewhat less than a make replacement
My only experience with cmake is as a *precursor* to make.
Whenever I run cmake (eg to build freeglut or plplot libraries), it generates one or more makefiles and the very next command I run is 'make'.
I therefore see cmake as an alternative to autotools, not as an alternative to make.
Cheers, Rob
Comment on Re^2: OT Sick of make, is there a replacement?
Sorta. cmake generates makefiles (or other build systems, like ninja), that run (among other things) cmake. So it's not like autotools in that it just spits outs plain makefiles; you need cmake through the whole process, even if you invoke it via make.