No. Not really. Is Make a shell? It isn't. Neither is CMake. Python can be used as one but it really lacks niceties that an actual shell would provide. A cross platform shell with limited capabilities would do the job for me but it is overkill.

I am not really looking for features you find in shells like REPL, job control or very complex structure support. Having targets and being able to execute commands to build them independent from any OS shell is enough.