Python error during "configure": no module named "distutils"

I'm getting this error when building head (r16037) of trunk on SuSE Linux 9.1.

- Julian

~/src/subversion> which python
/usr/bin/python
~/src/subversion> python -V
Python 2.3.3

~/src/subversion> (cd ~/build/subversion/ && CFLAGS="-Wall $EXTRA_WARN"
~/src/subversion/configure --with-apxs=/usr/sbin/apxs2 --enable-maintainer-mode
--disable-mod-activation)
configure: Configuring Subversion 1.3.0
[...]
checking for python... /usr/bin/python
[...]
checking for Python includes... Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/julianfoad/src/subversion/build/get-py-info.py", line 12, in ?
     from distutils import sysconfig
ImportError: No module named distutils

checking for compiling Python extensions... Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/julianfoad/src/subversion/build/get-py-info.py", line 12, in ?
     from distutils import sysconfig
ImportError: No module named distutils

checking for linking Python extensions... Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/julianfoad/src/subversion/build/get-py-info.py", line 12, in ?
     from distutils import sysconfig
ImportError: No module named distutils

checking for linking Python libraries... Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "/home/julianfoad/src/subversion/build/get-py-info.py", line 12, in ?
     from distutils import sysconfig
ImportError: No module named distutils

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Received on Sun Sep 4 13:05:18 2005