> i was able to reproduce this in clean 2.7
> as for issue8335, yes, i think that it's a duplicate
Ok, then please add your failure messages on the other bug.
> Sandro, this is only reproducible on systems without python
>- so by definition, you can hit this only during installation
Hm, Sandro didn’t say whether he had a system Python or not.
> distutils2 is irrelevant here
This is internal bookkeeping, you can ignore it. When we fix something in distutils, it’s forward-ported to distutils2. I don’t want to wait until the end to synchronize bug fixes.