diff -r bdfaec90d665 distutils2/command/cmd.py
--- a/distutils2/command/cmd.py	Sun Oct 03 12:30:06 2010 +0200
+++ b/distutils2/command/cmd.py	Sun Oct 03 17:35:21 2010 +0200
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
 
 __revision__ = "$Id: cmd.py 75192 2009-10-02 23:49:48Z tarek.ziade $"
 
-import os, re
+import errno
+import os
+import re
 from distutils2.errors import DistutilsOptionError
 from distutils2 import util
 from distutils2 import log
@@ -386,7 +388,11 @@
                 log.info("created directory %s%s", head, part)
                 head += part + os.sep
             return
-        os.makedirs(name, mode)
+        try:
+            os.makedirs(name, mode)
+        except OSError as e:
+            if not (e.errno == errno.EEXIST and os.path.isdir(name)):
+                raise
 
     def copy_file(self, infile, outfile,
                    preserve_mode=1, preserve_times=1, link=None, level=1):
diff -r bdfaec90d665 distutils2/compiler/ccompiler.py
--- a/distutils2/compiler/ccompiler.py	Sun Oct 03 12:30:06 2010 +0200
+++ b/distutils2/compiler/ccompiler.py	Sun Oct 03 17:35:21 2010 +0200
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@
 
 __revision__ = "$Id: ccompiler.py 77704 2010-01-23 09:23:15Z tarek.ziade $"
 
+import errno
 import sys
 import os
 import re
@@ -944,7 +945,11 @@
                 log.info("created directory %s%s", head, part)
                 head += part + os.sep
             return
-        os.makedirs(name, mode)
+        try:
+            os.makedirs(name, mode)
+        except OSError as e:
+            if not (e.errno == errno.EEXIST and os.path.isdir(name)):
+                raise
 
 
 # Map a sys.platform/os.name ('posix', 'nt') to the default compiler