On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 1:12 PM, Robert Bradshaw <rober...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Wes McKinney <wesmck...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I haven't been able to find an easy answer to this question, but here is my > > problem: > > > > Cython file: extension.pyx > > Declarations / C imports: extension.pxd > > C dependencies: > > a.c > > b.c > > c.c > > > > These are all compiled together to produce extension.so. > > > > The problem is, when I modify extension.pyx, all 4 C files are recompiled, > > even if the 3 straight C files are untouched. > > > > Any way to fix the build system to not do this? Seems that the .o files from > > the C dependencies could be easily reused. > > Cython compiles the .pyx file to a .c file; distutils takes over from > there. I'm not aware of any way to do this (short of making a+b+c into > a shared library) but perhaps someone on the distutils lists would > have some ideas. > > You could also look at using ccache. > > - Robert > _______________________________________________ > cython-devel mailing list > cython-devel@python.org > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel
Using ccache and patching distutils as described in this SO post was adequate for my needs: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11013851/speeding-up-build-process-with-distutils thanks! _______________________________________________ cython-devel mailing list cython-devel@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/cython-devel