RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp

Installed /home/zashraf/venvs/cuckoo-development/lib/python2.7/site-packages/enum34-1.1.6-py2.7.egg
Searching for setuptools>=11.3
Reading https://pypi.python.org/simple/setuptools/
Best match: setuptools 35.0.2
Downloading https://pypi.python.org/packages/88/13/7d560b75334a8e4b4903f537b7e5a1ad9f1a2f1216e2587aaaf91b38c991/setuptools-35.0.2.zip#md5=c368b4970d3ad3eab5afe4ef4dbe2437
Processing setuptools-35.0.2.zip
Writing /tmp/easy_install-GiYcgr/setuptools-35.0.2/setup.cfg
Running setuptools-35.0.2/setup.py -q bdist_egg --dist-dir /tmp/easy_install-GiYcgr/setuptools-35.0.2/egg-dist-tmp-MwQQz1
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The following error has occurred while trying to install Cuckoo!
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Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "setup.py", line 98, in do_setup
    setuptools.setup(**kwargs)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
    dist.run_commands()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
    self.run_command(cmd)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
    cmd_obj.run()

...
File "/home/zashraf/venvs/cuckoo-development/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/pkg_resources.py", line 1477, in build_zipmanifest
    zfile = zipfile.ZipFile(path)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 770, in __init__
    self._RealGetContents()
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 807, in _RealGetContents
    endrec = _EndRecData(fp)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 231, in _EndRecData
    return _EndRecData64(fpin, -sizeEndCentDir, endrec)
  File "/usr/lib/python2.7/zipfile.py", line 173, in _EndRecData64
    if sig != stringEndArchive64Locator:
RuntimeError: maximum recursion depth exceeded in cmp

Reproduce the Cuckoo installation with the shown Python 2.7 environment, starting at setup.py line 98 and following the traceback through pkg_resources.py line 1477 and zipfile.py. Determine why processing setuptools reaches the recursion error, then verify that installation completes without the reported RuntimeError.