Python distutils.Extension : setting a concurrency level

Question

Dear Stackoverflow,

I'm wondering how to reproduce the equivalent of a make -j<n> on a setup.py using distutils.Extension, in order to build a C extension to Python 2.6 .

My desired outcome: having setup.py build using a few instances of my C-compiler in the same time, instead of only one.

There are probably an environnement var or two that I'm missing.

Thanks, Florian

Answer 1

And the answer from distutils-sig's mailing list is : a patch for distutils2 is still to be written.