avoid useless overhead if we don't find anything to do

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/bin/cythonize b/bin/cythonize
index 5d8d1d477..9c02b7e85 100755
--- a/bin/cythonize
+++ b/bin/cythonize
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@ def cython_compile(path_pattern, options):
                 if base_dir:
                     os.chdir(cwd)
 
-            if options.build:
+            if ext_modules and options.build:
                 if len(ext_modules) > 1 and options.parallel:
                     if pool is None:
                         try: