use cp command instead of shutil.copy2 from python

The copy2 function from python does not copy the file in it's original encoding. If the source file is tagged as IBM-1047, the destination file will be in ISO8859-1 encoding AND untagged. Once python(2.7.13) is fixed, we can undo this.
ibmruntimes · May 23, 2018 · b5dd012 · b5dd012
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diff --git a/tools/install.py b/tools/install.py
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ def try_copy(path, dst):
   print 'installing %s' % target_path
   try_mkdir_r(os.path.dirname(target_path))
   try_unlink(target_path) # prevent ETXTBSY errors
+  return os.system('cp %s %s' % (source_path, target_path)) # Remove when python is fixed
   return shutil.copy2(source_path, target_path)
 
 def try_remove(path, dst):