I am working on a collection MATLAB, Java, and C/C++ components that all inter-operate, but have distinctly different compilation/installation steps. We currently don't compile anything for MATLAB, use maven2 for our Java build and unit tests, and use autotools for our C/C++ build and unit tests.
I would like to move everything to a single build and unit test system, using maven2, but have not been able to find a plugin that will allow the C/C++ codestream to remain autotools-based and simply wrap it in a maven build. Having to rip out autotools support and recreate all the dependencies in maven is most likely a deal-breaker, so I'm looking for a way for maven and autotools to play nicely together, rather than having to choose between the two.
Is this possible or even desirable? Are there resources out there that I have overlooked?