Please describe the problem:
istanbul-0.2.1 ./configure fails when executing some python code to test availability of pygst.

On Gentoo linux, I need to import gobject before importing pygst. This is true in the interactive console as well as the 

My ebuild patches configure, and build proceeds.

# cat files/istanbul-0.2.1-configure.patch 
--- configure 2006-07-31 15:52:57.000000000 -0400
+++ configure 2006-07-31 00:17:55.000000000 -0400
@@ -23142,6 +23142,7 @@
 import sys
 
 try:
+    import gobject
     import pygst; pygst.require('0.10')
     import gst
     assert gst.pygst_version[1] == 10 or (gst.pygst_version[1] == 9 and gst.pygst_version[2] >= 7)



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Does this happen every time?
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