I did the following and you can see that it broke before getting to
NUMERIC. It looks like smpeg-config is not where it is supposed to be:
KMA:/home/Johan/work/Python/pygame/pygame-1.7.1release # python
config.py
Using UNIX configuration...
Backup existing "Setup" file [y/N]:y
Remove old build directory (force recompile) [y/N]:y
Hunting dependencies...
sh: smpeg-config: command not found
WARNING: "smpeg-config" failed!
SDL : found 1.2.8
FONT : found
IMAGE : not found
MIXER : not found
SMPEG : not found
NUMERIC : not found
Warning, some of the pygame dependencies were not found. Pygame can
still
compile and install, but games that depend on those missing dependencies
will not run. Would you like to continue the configuration? [Y/n]:n