automake 1.4 didn't ship with python.m4, so autogen.sh needs to ask for 1.6 or later.
On my system (Ubuntu 5.10), no version of aclocal finds the python.m4 macro file. My workaround for it is to type: aclocal -I /usr/share/aclocal-1.9 <- contains python.m4 autoheader automake-1.9 autoconf
(bug triage) Hmm, this have never caused me problems on Fedora. Please reopen if you can still reproduce and have a patch to fix it.
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