[issue19394] distutils.core.Extension: empty strings in library_dirs and include_dirs should not be allowed

Éric Araujo added the comment: distutils isn’t improved anymore. -- assignee: eric.araujo -> nosy: +jaraco -tarek resolution: -> wont fix stage: -> resolved status: open -> closed ___ Python tracker

[issue19394] distutils.core.Extension: empty strings in library_dirs and include_dirs should not be allowed

Éric Araujo added the comment: Thanks for the report. What fix do you suggest? Printing an error if empty strings are passed for include/library_dirs? -- ___ Python tracker rep...@bugs.python.org http://bugs.python.org/issue19394

[issue19394] distutils.core.Extension: empty strings in library_dirs and include_dirs should not be allowed

New submission from robotron: When empty string element is passed in include_dirs or library_dirs (e.g. include_dirs = []) param of distutils.core.Extension constructor, it is propagated to compiler/linker params and in the case of gcc it eats subsequent command line option. setup.py