On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 16:37 -0700, Lorenz Mösenlechner wrote: 
> Hi,
> 
> calling 'cmake CMakeLists.txt' in your package directory should
> overwrite your existing Makefile with a cmake generated one. I'm not
> sure if this is what you want to do and calling cmake outside a
> dedicated build directory is not the right way to use cmake anyway.

Was there a bug at some point where 
CMakeCache.txt
cmake_install.cmake
CMakeFiles/
were built outside of build/ and the primary Makefile was overwritten?
It would explain things if that was not a feature and was in fact a bug.