IMHO, the GNU tools have facilities for doing all of these things.

We distribute software packages that consist of C++ code, Tcl code,
and install scripts.  Autoconf and automake generate the bulk of
the config scripts and makefiles, and ".in" files handle the rest.

The build process looks like:

   configure --prefix=/target1
   make
   make prefix=/target2 install
   pushd /target2
   stow pkgname-n.n
   popd

It is left as an exercise to the reader to find out about STOW.
  ftp://ftp.sunet.se/pub/gnu/stow

I am infinitely irritated by companies that waste huge amounts of
time developing make rules for windows and then "don't have time"
to do the smaller job of autoconf/automake for GNU.

Just my 2 cents.

Phil

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