For my own personal projects (which admittedly have very modest requirements) I quite like waf. It neatly avoids the problem faced by most non-standard build-sy

For my own personal projects (which admittedly have very modest requirements) I quite like waf. It neatly avoids the problem faced by most non-standard build-systems by distributing itself as a self-extracting bundle of python scripts small enough to add to your repository (<100KB). There's recently been a new release (1.6) with some API changes, but as the standard model is to redistribute the whole system this won't break anyone's build. http://code.google.com/p/waf http://code.google.com/p/waf