LinBuild is a Python-based, simple and user-friendly build system for C/C++ on Linux/Unix. LinBuild adopts some concepts from Waf and CMake. LinBuild is simply a single script that depends only on Python.
A Snakefile is an unholy combination of a Makefile and a Python script. Here you have a cross-platform code generation tool with the simple build rules of make, with the power of a full-featured scripting language.