Looking at it some more, the cmake invocation depends on a CMakeLists.txt that has some constructs not in the CMakeVMmaker(Squeak) file of the same name:
LIST (REMOVE_DUPLICATES config_vars) FILE (WRITE ${bld}/config.h.in "") FOREACH (var ${config_vars}) FILE (APPEND ${bld}/config.h.in "#cmakedefine ${var} @${var}@\n") ENDFOREACH (var)
So, generating config.h from CMakeLists.txt is definitely doable. I will devote brain-cycles to implementing that when I have the build.linux32x86/ stack built for all buildTypes using the autoconf interim step.
Thanks for your patience, this exchange was very helpful to me.
cheers tty.