diff --git a/packages/lang/Python2/package.mk b/packages/lang/Python2/package.mk
index 632cba5aaa..c55df9f0f7 100644
--- a/packages/lang/Python2/package.mk
+++ b/packages/lang/Python2/package.mk
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ PKG_SHORTDESC="python2: The Python2 programming language"
 PKG_LONGDESC="Python2 is an interpreted object-oriented programming language, and is often compared with Tcl, Perl, Java or Scheme."
 
 PKG_TOOLCHAIN="autotools"
-PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="-parallel"
+PKG_BUILD_FLAGS="-parallel +lto-parallel"
 
 PKG_PY_DISABLED_MODULES="_tkinter nis gdbm bsddb ossaudiodev"