Issue #8876: distutils now falls back to copying files when hard linking doesn't work.
This allows use with special filesystems such as VirtualBox shared folders.
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 1455d2c..86adaeb 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -37,6 +37,10 @@
Library
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+- Issue #8876: distutils now falls back to copying files when hard linking
+ doesn't work. This allows use with special filesystems such as VirtualBox
+ shared folders.
+
- Issue #9351: Defaults set with set_defaults on an argparse subparser
are no longer ignored when also set on the parent parser.