From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Enge Subject: Parallel python builds Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 12:03:01 +0200 Message-ID: <20151023100301.GA19713@debian> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47050) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpZBt-0007xj-E5 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 06:03:18 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpZBq-00078o-6U for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 06:03:17 -0400 Received: from mout.kundenserver.de ([212.227.17.10]:50018) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZpZBp-00078R-U0 for guix-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Oct 2015 06:03:14 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello, while building python2-numpy on the armhf build machine (which takes quite a while if I remember well), I realise that only one core is working. Is there a way to use several cores in the python build system, when running "python setup.py build" (which, at least in this case, ends up calling the c compiler)? Andreas