diff -urN mailman-2.1.2.orig/configure.in mailman-2.1.2/configure.in
--- mailman-2.1.2.orig/configure.in	2003-04-22 05:34:51.000000000 +0200
+++ mailman-2.1.2/configure.in	2003-10-04 10:27:52.070293960 +0200
@@ -212,31 +212,9 @@
 # $1 == variable name
 # $2 == user id to check for
 AC_SUBST($1)
-changequote(,)
-if test -z "$$1"
-then
-    cat > conftest.py <<EOF
-import grp
-gid = ''
-for group in "$2".split():
-    try:
-        try:
-            gname = grp.getgrgid(int(group))[0]
-            break
-        except ValueError:
-            gname = grp.getgrnam(group)[0]
-            break
-    except KeyError:
-        gname = ''
-fp = open("conftest.out", "w")
-fp.write("%s\n" % gname)
-fp.close()
-EOF
-    $PYTHON conftest.py
-    $1=`cat conftest.out`
-fi
-changequote([, ])
-rm -f conftest.out conftest.py])
+
+$1=$2
+])
 
 
 # new macro for finding UIDs