diff -ur pycairo-1.8.6/configure.ac pycairo-1.8.6.new/configure.ac

--- pycairo-1.8.6/configure.ac	2009-06-25 12:38:07 +0400

+++ pycairo-1.8.6.new/configure.ac	2009-07-01 22:51:32 +0400

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@

 AC_DISABLE_STATIC

 AC_PROG_LIBTOOL dnl required version (1.4) DON'T REMOVE - used by autogen.sh

-AM_PATH_PYTHON(2.6)

+AM_PATH_PYTHON(2.5)

 # Checks for libraries ---

diff -ur pycairo-1.8.6/setup.py pycairo-1.8.6.new/setup.py

--- pycairo-1.8.6/setup.py	2009-06-25 12:39:41 +0400

+++ pycairo-1.8.6.new/setup.py	2009-07-01 22:47:59 +0400

@@ -32,8 +32,8 @@

     return [x.lstrip(opt) for x in output.split()]

-if sys.version_info < (2,6):

-    raise SystemExit('Error: Python >= 2.6 is required')

+#if sys.version_info < (2,6):

+#    raise SystemExit('Error: Python >= 2.6 is required')

 pkg_config_version_check ('cairo', cairo_version_required)

 if sys.platform == 'win32':