Hey folks, I'm having a problem attempting to build the release branch
on a 32 bit RHEL5 system.  I've used "--with-python=xyz" to point to a
local install directory, but configure tells me it wasn't found.

The exact same configuration worked fine in version 7.1.

This is my configure command:
CFLAGS=-g \
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-R/build/toolchain/lin32/ncurses-5.5/lib 
-Wl,-R/build/toolchain/lin32/expat-1.95.8/lib 
-Wl,-R/build/toolchain/lin32/python-2.5/lib 
-Wl,-R/build/toolchain/lin32/zlib-1.2.3-3/lib \
$(srcdir)/configure --with-python=/build/toolchain/lin32/python-2.5

... and this is the error message:

checking for python2.5... no
configure: error: no usable python found at 
/build/toolchain/lin32/python-2.5
make[1]: *** [configure-gdb] Error 1


I'm attaching my config.status and gdb/config.log.
Any help appreciated.

Thanks,
Michael