CMake has add_definitions and remove_definitions commands. You can use them to define macros for different parts of your project.
This can be done with SCons rather painlessly. You will definitely need a build directory hierarchy for the objects built with different preprocessor macros. In SCons terms, creating build directories like this is called variant_dir.
I would recomend the following SCons Hierarchical build structure.
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