setup.py fails if there are no extensions

[bennoleslie]

BPO	16867
Nosy	@ned-deily
Superseder	bpo-16537: Python’s setup.py raises a ValueError when self.extensions is empty
Files	zero_length_extensions.diff

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assignee = None
closed_at = <Date 2013-01-05.06:05:21.545>
created_at = <Date 2013-01-05.03:59:55.552>
labels = ['build']
title = 'setup.py fails if there are no extensions'
updated_at = <Date 2013-01-05.06:05:21.536>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/bennoleslie'

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creation = <Date 2013-01-05.03:59:55.552>
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issue_num = 16867
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priority = 'normal'
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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue16867'
versions = ['Python 3.4']

[bennoleslie]

When building if there are zero extensions setup.py fails (max of a zero length list is undefined.)

Although not a very common case, there are potential speciality cases where there will be zero extensions.

[ned-deily]

This has already been reported in bpo-16537.