[issue8876] distutils should not assume that hardlinks will work

[Éric Araujo]

Éric Araujo <merwok at netwok.org> added the comment:

samtygier’s patch to implement the fallback-to-copy idea looks good.  Not sure if an automated test would be written, but samtygier says it was manually tested.

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components:  -Distutils2
keywords: +needs review
stage: needs patch -> patch review
versions:  -3rd party

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