5.3 ./configure && make

You can make your Rscons-based project more familiar to users of autoconf-generated projects by creating a configure script and a Makefile for the user. Such users may be used to executing:

./configure
make

to build a project. To do this, create a configure script with contents similar to the following:

#!/bin/sh
exec "$(dirname "$0")"/rscons configure "$@"

and make it executable with chmod +x configure.

If you want your users to be able to build/clean a project with make but still make use of Rscons under the hood, you can create a Makefile with contents something like this:

.PHONY: all
all:
    ./rscons build

.PHONY: clean
clean:
    ./rscons clean