Compiling rekall 2.2.0-beta0 on SuSE 9.0

Hi, mailing-list readers,
I recently downloaded the source-tarball of rekall 2.2.0-beta0  in order to 
compile and install it on an Acer Travelmate 661 with SuSE 9.0.  I began with 
./configure and learned that I had to install several devel-packages. But 
after that I got the following message:

checking für python versions /no/... configure: error: Unrecognised python 
version: 2.3+ (#1, Jan 7 2004, 09:17:35)

I must confess that I don't know what to do now. The Python-version which is 
found is the default and came with the distribution and in the 
install.kde-file I read 'By default the default version for your distribution 
and all later versions are build'.
Next I searched the web for some solution but I only found messages from other 
people with the same problem.
Is there somebody who knows how to fix this?

Thanks in advance,
Michael Eschweiler