diff -dur gcompris-5.2.orig/configure.in gcompris-5.2/configure.in
--- gcompris-5.2.orig/configure.in	2004-02-16 22:41:29.000000000 +0100
+++ gcompris-5.2/configure.in	2004-04-08 09:01:26.155107083 +0200
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@
   if test x$build_python_plugin = xyes; then
     dnl Search for python's libs
     dnl Take the needed libraries into the lib/python/config/Makefile... (see dia config)
-    python_makefile="${python_exec_prefix}/lib/python${python_version}/config/Makefile"
+    python_makefile="${libdir}/python${python_version}/config/Makefile"
     if test -f "${python_makefile}"; then
     dnl extra required libs
       python_localmodlibs=`sed -n -e 's/^LOCALMODLIBS=\(.*\)/\1/p' $python_makefile`
@@ -211,10 +211,10 @@
       python_libs="${python_localmodlibs} ${python_basemodlibs} ${python_other_libs}"
 
       python_old_ldflags=${LDFLAGS}
-      LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} ${python_libs_cflags} -L${python_exec_prefix}/lib/python${python_version}/config ${python_libs}"
+      LDFLAGS="${LDFLAGS} ${python_libs_cflags} -L${libdir}/python${python_version}/config ${python_libs}"
       AC_CHECK_LIB(python${python_version}, 
                    Py_Initialize, 
-                   PYTHON_LIBS="${python_libs_cflags} -L${python_exec_prefix}/lib/python${python_version}/config -lpython${python_version} ${python_libs}",
+                   PYTHON_LIBS="${python_libs_cflags} -L${libdir}/python${python_version}/config -lpython${python_version} ${python_libs}",
                    [ AC_MSG_WARN([Couldn't find python library, python plugin disabled.])
                      build_python_plugin=no ])  
       LDFLAGS=${python_old_ldflags}
Only in gcompris-5.2: configure.in~