d195d55 Make the bootstrap build work on Python without distutils

Authored and Committed by churchyard a year ago
    Make the bootstrap build work on Python without distutils
    
    The setup.py install command tries to import distutils
    but the distutils-precedence.pth file is not yet respected
    and Python 3.12+ no longer has distutils in the standard library.
    
    The error was:
    
        Executing(%install): ...
        ...
        + /usr/bin/python3 setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --root /builddir/build/BUILDROOT/python-setuptools-65.5.1-3.fc39~bootstrap.x86_64 --prefix /usr
        running install
        ...
        writing byte-compilation script '/tmp/tmpuud06dfj.py'
        /usr/bin/python3 /tmp/tmpuud06dfj.py
        Traceback (most recent call last):
          File "/tmp/tmpuud06dfj.py", line 1, in <module>
            from distutils.util import byte_compile
        ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'distutils'
        error: command '/usr/bin/python3' failed with exit code 1
    
        
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