Scons and Cmake aren't too bad. With either one of them, you at least know that a team of developers and a large user-base have worked out most of the kinks. H

Scons and Cmake aren't too bad. With either one of them, you at least know that a team of developers and a large user-base have worked out most of the kinks. Honestly though, raw GNU Make isn't too bad either, except for the not having any good built-in mechanisms for a 'configuration' step.