Use Stow to manage installation of librep and friends?

[kai emptydomain de (Kai Großjohann)]

Has anyone here ever tried to use Stow to manage the installation of
librep and friends?

It seems kinda difficult to redirect the "make install" step to a
different directory.  The installation of rep-gtk wants to install
itself into the directory where librep is installed and so on.

The installation step of rep-gtk wants to append to a file from librep
or from gtk it seems.

Perhaps I'm trying to separate packages too much, and I need to
install librep, rep-gtk, and sawfish into the same physical location?

Instead of trying to reinvent the wheel, I thought I might ask if
someone has already done this.

tia,
Kai