setup.py

import subprocess
from setuptools import setup
from setuptools.command.install import install as BaseInstall


class LibEFMInstall(BaseInstall):
    def run(self):
        # Build the shared library
        subprocess.call('env')
        subprocess.check_call(('make', '-C', 'efm_parser', 'libefm.so'))
        return BaseInstall.run(self) # Ugh, this is an old-style class


setup(
    name='Ellumia-Markdown',
    url='https://github.com/obeattie/Ellumia-Markdown',
    author='Oliver Beattie',
    author_email='oliver@ellumia.com',
    description='Ellumia Flavoured Markdown',
    version='0.1.1',
    packages=('efm_parser', ),
    package_data={ 'efm_parser': ['libefm.so'] },
    cmdclass={
        'install': LibEFMInstall,
    }
)