Weird behaviour with new config method

[ron minnich]

On 4 Aug 2003, Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Previously when we had this conversation we tried for a minimum python
> of 1.5 and the old config tool manages that.  We may need to bump the
> python requirement but we this needs investigation to see why the earlier
> versions of python have problems.
> 

we're going to have to bump minimums anyway. romcc fails for me on RH 7.3. 

ron