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+Add distutils fix for PEP 3147 issue
+
+Python 3 has a new standard for installing .pyc file, called PEP
+3147. Unfortunately, this standard requires both the .py and .pyc
+files to be installed for a Python module to be found. This is quite
+annoying on space-constrained embedded systems, since the .py file is
+technically not required for execution.
+
+For the Python standard library, our Python 3 package already contains
+a patch named python3-004-old-stdlib-cache.patch, which allows to
+disable the PEP 3147 installation.
+
+But that lives the distutils/setuptools package an unsolved
+problem. This patch therefore adds a new patch to Python, which makes
+distutils package use the traditional installation path when byte
+compiling, rather than the PEP 3147 installation path. Since
+setuptools relies on distutils internally, it also fixes setuptools
+based packages.
+
+Signed-off-by: Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>
+
+Index: b/Lib/distutils/util.py
+===================================================================
+--- a/Lib/distutils/util.py
++++ b/Lib/distutils/util.py
+@@ -437,7 +437,9 @@
+             # Terminology from the py_compile module:
+             #   cfile - byte-compiled file
+             #   dfile - purported source filename (same as 'file' by default)
+-            if optimize >= 0:
++            if "_python_sysroot" in os.environ:
++                cfile = file + (__debug__ and "c" or "o")
++            elif optimize >= 0:
+                 cfile = importlib.util.cache_from_source(
+                     file, debug_override=not optimize)
+             else: