--- configure.in.orig	2003-07-31 00:11:21.000000000 -0500
+++ configure.in	2003-08-01 09:49:43.000000000 -0500
@@ -283,7 +283,7 @@
                 AC_MSG_CHECKING(Python version)
                 changequote(<<, >>)dnl
                 PY_VERSION=`$pythonpath -c 'import sys; print sys.version[:3]'`
-                PY_PATH=`$pythonpath -c 'import sys ; print sys.path[1][5:]'`
+                PY_PATH=`$pythonpath -c 'from distutils import sysconfig; print sysconfig.get_python_lib()'[5:-14]`
                 $pythonpath -c "import sys; map(int,sys.version[:3].split('.')) >= [2,2] or sys.exit(1)"
                 changequote([, ])dnl
                 AC_MSG_RESULT($PY_VERSION)