on Ubuntu 20.04, setuptools 60.5.0 causes dynamically loaded libraries to fail (and therefore things like "import math" during build to fail).
The temporary workaround is to invoke the python build as:
SETUPTOOLS_USE_DISTUTILS=stdlib make -j
which I needed to do in build-python-build.sh
I suppose this is just a place / way to log this until the setuptools fix is released...