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Rake is a Ruby make-like utility using standard Ruby syntax for the build specification file.
Portupgrade (aka pkgtools) is a tool set for working with FreeBSD ports and packages. It enhances abilities of the system tools and adds many new ones.
Sake is a system-wide version of the Rake application, allowing you to copy and run tasks from one general file into your specific project.
bee is a build tool running YAML build files à la Ant, which won't bother you with writing code when not necessary and happens to be as fast as Make. These build files are thin layers around scripts written in Shell, Ruby or bee tasks for platform independant builds.