Quoting James Henstridge <james jamesh id au>:
I get the feeling that scons plus something like bksys might be worth considering in the future, but it seems a bit immature right now. I'm sure it has benefits right now, such as removing libtool from the build process (which takes up a noticeable amount of time in builds), but it isn't clear that the benefits currently outweigh the switching costs.
What about platforms where libtool is required? --d