No, seriously, please just use autotools. It's way better for users and packagers of your library. If you're not going to do that, then use an alternative tha

No, seriously, please just use autotools. It's way better for users and packagers of your library. If you're not going to do that, then use an alternative that provides the same command-line interface as autotools (so that things like "./configure --prefix=FOO && make -j4 && make install DESTDIR=BAR" still work). As far as I know, there's no such thing as of yet.