build: add workaround for WSL

Signed-off-by: gengjiawen <[email protected]> PR-URL: #30221 Fixes: #30189 Reviewed-By: Christian Clauss <[email protected]> Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <[email protected]>
nodejs · Nov 5, 2019 · 49e7f04 · 49e7f04
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@@ -282,6 +282,11 @@ $ ./configure
 $ make -j4
 ```
 
+If you run into a `No module named 'distutils.spawn'` error when executing
+`./configure`, please try `python3 -m pip install --upgrade setuptools` or
+`sudo apt install python3-distutils -y`.
+For more information, see https://github.com/nodejs/node/issues/30189.
+
 The `-j4` option will cause `make` to run 4 simultaneous compilation jobs which
 may reduce build time. For more information, see the
 [GNU Make Documentation](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Parallel.html).