[bjourne]

Try WAF. It was created about twelve years ago as a fork of SCons because the author was dissatisfied with its performance problems. WAF is in my opinion a very capable build and configuration system but the main drawback is its small community. The person developing WAF isn't keen on "marketing" it.

[ncmncm]

The only place I have encountered WAF was at Bloomberg, where it was used to build the C++ foundation library (BDE) that Bloomberg uses in older projects in place of Boost and Std, both of which it predates.

WAF worked, and didn't seem especially slow, unlike Scons, but I frequently needed to code Python to make it do what seemed like pretty ordinary things.