Initial patch by Oren Tirosh and Hirokazu Yamamoto.

  finding the bug and providing a patch.

  finding the bug and providing a patch.

multiprocessing.reduction, which may not be available (e.g. if the OS doesn't
support FD passing over Unix domain sockets).

order (endpoints machines can have different endianness).

This reveals problems in the packaging test suite, which I’ll look
into after the regrtest checks are made more usable (see #12314).

- minor cleanup in Metadata
- trigger creation of the sysconfig._CONFIG_VARS dict
- home_page is used over home-page: it’s not a compound word, it’s an
  escaped space

Distutils2 is now synchronized with Packaging.

This was caught in the distutils2 repo by pyflakes.

PEP 370 features and sys.dont_write_bytecode are always available
in 3.3; the distutils2 backport still has the conditionals.

I also renamed an internal misnamed method and fixed a few things
(“packaging2” name, stray print, unused import, fd leak).

to unwarranted assumption about absolute paths: on OS X /var is a
symlink to /private/var.  (Also true for /etc and /tmp).