I don't know if there's a 'correct' answer to this, but if you wanted to try the path of least resistance you could make your existing sub-components build with

I don't know if there's a 'correct' answer to this, but if you wanted to try the path of least resistance you could make your existing sub-components build with a RUNNABLE option in lazymake. You'd end up just using the existing make files that way. Not sure if that answers your question... I generally stay away from building external dependancies at the same time as my project. Whenever I start a new project that needs 3rd party libs I build them all statically and version them off in my repo.