Bracketing sys.version_info is wrong and print is only a function im python 3. --- configure.ac | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: graphviz-2.34.0/configure.ac =================================================================== --- graphviz-2.34.0.orig/configure.ac 2013-09-07 03:07:52.000000000 +0200 +++ graphviz-2.34.0/configure.ac 2013-09-12 16:25:48.006562980 +0200 @@ -1143,7 +1143,7 @@ else if test "x$PYTHON" = "x"; then use_python="No (python not available)" else - PYTHON_VERSION=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; print '%d.%d' % (sys.version_info[[0:2]])"` + PYTHON_VERSION=`$PYTHON -c "import sys; print('%d.%d' % sys.version_info[[0:2]])"` if test "x$PYTHON_VERSION" = "x"; then PYTHON= else