BEESIP

yuma README says about makefile variables which are possible to override:

DESTDIR=string: set the debian target build (default NULL)
FORCE_YUMA_HOME=1: use when building SIL libraries to
link against a development version of yuma.
NOTOASTER=1: disables building the example toaster SIL
PRODUCTION=1
Next, there is work to use GNU autoconf:
Hi,
I have written a script that converts the existing yuma-tools source to an autotools enabled build. You can get it here
svn co svn://projects.sinodun.com/dnsccm/trunk/auto-yuma
There are a few outstanding issues that I know of (See the README) but it works on FreeBSD and CentOS at least.
If anyone finds this work useful and/or is interested in helping with it then please let me know.
This work was funded as part of a grant from http://nlnet.nl

Try if it is possible to use.