[issue39763] distutils.spawn should use subprocess (hang in parallel builds on QNX)

[Michael Felt]

Michael Felt <aixtools at felt.demon.nl> added the comment:

Almost. The command is run, but not enough of the bootstrap is finished - it seems.

  File "/data/prj/python/git/python3-3.9/Lib/_aix_support.py", line 54, in _aix_bosmp64
    out = out.decode("utf-8").strip().split(":")  # type: ignore
AttributeError: 'str' object has no attribute 'decode'

Just skipping the subprocess bit (which is what the original does, waiting for better moments) is sufficient for the bootstrap phase.

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