On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 03:20:17PM -0700, Keith Jackson wrote:
FYI, we finally figured this out sort of. The problem arises when a list containing only the empty string is passed into the extra_compile_args argument to Extension. This came up since we're
At least on platforms that use unixccompiler.py, the contents of the extra_compile_args list ends up being passed to os.execvp(). An empty string therefore ends up looking like the shell invocation 'gcc --foo --bar --baz ""', and the zero-length string argument must mess things up. Protection against this might be added by dropping all empty strings from the list, but I don't think that's a good idea; if this was done, how would you supply an empty string when you really want to? --amk (www.amk.ca) "Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!" -- Dr Mortimer, in "The Hound of the Baskervilles"