[issue8876] distutils should not assume that hardlinks will work

[Antoine Pitrou]

Antoine Pitrou added the comment:

For the record, the only place where distutils seems to use hard-linking is distutils.command.sdist. The fallback on copying is safe there, since it's done manually if os.link doesn't exist.

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