diff --git a/src/scripts/extensions/add_extensions.sh b/src/scripts/extensions/add_extensions.sh
index afa276df..ba4641fd 100644
--- a/src/scripts/extensions/add_extensions.sh
+++ b/src/scripts/extensions/add_extensions.sh
@@ -157,7 +157,10 @@ get_pecl_version() {
 pecl_install() {
   local extension=$1
   add_pecl >/dev/null 2>&1
-  yes '' 2>/dev/null | sudo pecl install -f "$extension" >/dev/null 2>&1
+  ncpu="$(nproc 2>/dev/null || sysctl -n hw.ncpu 2>/dev/null || echo '1')"
+  prefix_opts="$(parse_args "$extension" CONFIGURE_PREFIX_OPTS) MAKEFLAGS='-j $ncpu'"
+  suffix_opts="$(parse_args "$extension" CONFIGURE_OPTS) $(parse_args "$extension" CONFIGURE_SUFFIX_OPTS)"
+  yes '' 2>/dev/null | sudo "$prefix_opts" pecl install -f -D "$(parse_pecl_configure_options "$suffix_opts")" "$extension" >/dev/null 2>&1
 }
 
 # Function to install a specific version of PECL extension.
diff --git a/src/scripts/extensions/source.sh b/src/scripts/extensions/source.sh
index 9b30c081..1b416ef6 100644
--- a/src/scripts/extensions/source.sh
+++ b/src/scripts/extensions/source.sh
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # Function to parse extension environment variables
 parse_args() {
-  local extension=$1
+  local extension=${1%-*}
   suffix=$(echo "$2" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')
   up_ext_name=$(echo "$extension" | tr '[:lower:]' '[:upper:]')
   var="${extension}_${suffix}"
@@ -10,6 +10,19 @@ parse_args() {
   echo "$output" | xargs -n 1 | sort | uniq | xargs
 }
 
+# Function to parse configure options for pecl
+# Make sure we have all options in name="value" form i.e XML properties.
+parse_pecl_configure_options() {
+  configure_opts=$(echo "$1" | sed -r -e "s#['\"]|--##g")
+  IFS=' ' read -r -a opts_array <<< "$configure_opts"
+  output_opts=()
+  for opt in "${opts_array[@]}"; do
+    [ "${opt##*=}" != "${opt%=*}" ] && value="${opt##*=}" || value=yes
+    output_opts+=("${opt%=*}=\"$value\"")
+  done
+  echo "${output_opts[@]}"
+}
+
 # Function to log if a library is installed
 add_lib_log() {
   local lib=$1