./configure fails with python 3.2

[David Martin]

When building HIPL ./configure fails if python 3.2 is used. This is the output:

checking whether to have middlebox authentification... (cached) no
checking whether to use performance measurement... (cached) no

+-----------------------------------------------
| processing modules...
|
  File "./process_modules.py", line 80
    print '|\n| WARNING in configuration of ' + module_name + ':',
                                               ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
configure: error: Module processing failed

Seems like the generated configure checks for a version too old but not for one too recent. A workaround is to look for the line
"for am_cv_pathless_PYTHON in python python2 python3 python3.0 python2.5 python2.4 python2.3 python2.2 python2.1 python2.0 none; do"
in configure and delete the first python so that python2 is used. Alternatively swap the symlink of python in /usr/bin.