diff -r eee959fee5f5 Lib/distutils/tests/test_spawn.py
--- a/Lib/distutils/tests/test_spawn.py	Sat May 07 21:13:50 2016 +0300
+++ b/Lib/distutils/tests/test_spawn.py	Fri May 20 11:32:01 2016 +0200
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 """Tests for distutils.spawn."""
 import unittest
 import os
-from test.support import run_unittest
+from test.support import run_unittest, is_android
 
 from distutils.spawn import _nt_quote_args
 from distutils.spawn import spawn
@@ -31,7 +31,10 @@
         # through the shell that returns 1
         if os.name == 'posix':
             exe = os.path.join(tmpdir, 'foo.sh')
-            self.write_file(exe, '#!/bin/sh\nexit 1')
+            if is_android:
+                self.write_file(exe, '#!/system/bin/sh\nexit 1')
+            else:
+                self.write_file(exe, '#!/bin/sh\nexit 1')
         else:
             exe = os.path.join(tmpdir, 'foo.bat')
             self.write_file(exe, 'exit 1')
@@ -42,7 +45,10 @@
         # now something that works
         if os.name == 'posix':
             exe = os.path.join(tmpdir, 'foo.sh')
-            self.write_file(exe, '#!/bin/sh\nexit 0')
+            if is_android:
+                self.write_file(exe, '#!/system/bin/sh\nexit 0')
+            else:
+                self.write_file(exe, '#!/bin/sh\nexit 0')
         else:
             exe = os.path.join(tmpdir, 'foo.bat')
             self.write_file(exe, 'exit 0')