I can't install gramps: i was trying to run it before and hitting some errors so I decided to rebuild python and gramps. Now gramps won't complete the configure stage. checking for python platform... darwin checking for python script directory... ${prefix}/lib/python2.4/site- packages checking for python extension module directory... ${exec_prefix}/lib/ python2.4/site-packages checking for sh... /bin/sh checking Python bindings for gtk2.4 (pygtk2>=2.3.4)... ok checking Python bindings for gnome... ./configure: line 2324: 26839 Bus error $PYTHON conftest.py cat: conftest.out: No such file or directory configure: error: **** The python bindings for gnome 2.0 (gnome-python2) could not be found. Error: Status 1 encountered during processing. Additionally, python returns this: Date/Time: 2007-03-04 13:07:09.134 -0800 OS Version: 10.4.8 (Build 8L127) Report Version: 4 Command: python Path: /opt/local/bin/python Parent: sh [26648] Version: ??? (???) 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