[Gdal-dev] Python checks fail during configure

[Tyler Mitchell]

./configure is giving me some strange results around the python support.   
This is from CVS version a few minutes ago.
Log snippit below.

Tyler
...............
checking GDAL version... 1.2.3
checking for python... python
checking where python Makefiles are...   File "<string>", line 1
    import
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
  File "<string>", line 1
    import
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
  File "<string>", line 1
    import
         ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
found
checking Python makefile... missing, python disabled.