SCons is a software construction tool (build tool substitute for Make) implemented in Python. It features a modular build engine that can be embedded in other software. SCons configuration files are Python scripts that call the build engine API. It can scan files to detect dependencies automatically and maintain a global view of all dependencies in a build tree, and uses MD5 signatures to detect changed file contents reliably. Timestamps can be used if you prefer. SCons also supports parallel bu...

Mxx_ru (Make++ on Ruby) is a cross-platform build tool. It's intended for C/C++ languages in general, but it's easy to extend for handling other languages. It uses a template based approach for describing build process.

CheckSharp is a development tool written in C# for checking C# code against coding guidelines. CheckSharp comes with an Nant task and a command line version to automate checking of source code for one file or a couple of projects.