Forwarding in case somebody knows the answer.  Oleg Khlybov wrote the
menumaker package that I just added to portage.

-----Forwarded Message-----
> From: Oleg A. Khlybov <fougas@mail.ru>
> To: Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>
> Subject: Re: MenuMaker added to Gentoo Linux
> Date: 30 Jul 2003 15:17:53 +0600
> 
[snip]
> In addition, I have a question you might have an answer: I'm writing gui 
> frontend to MM which uses gtk2, and I need good autoconf macros for python to 
> obtain compile and linking flags. Those existing macros I could find 
> (supplied with fluxspace, for example), failed to find python on my 
> development FreeBSD machine. I wouldn't want to spend my time reinventing the 
> wheel and write such macros myself. Since Gentoo is heavily Python-oriented, 
> someone of you might have a solution (or a good advice). Can you help me with 
> this?
> 
> Thanks in advance, Oleg
> 
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Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@gentoo.org>