[pygame] "import pygame" crashes with svn build

[Lorenz Quack <don@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a problem running pygame from the current svn sources.
building and installing works fine but when I import pygame it crashes:

>>> import pygame
Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault
Aborted

If I run it through pdb I get the following result:

>>> pdb.run("import pygame") 

> <string>(1)<module>()->None
(Pdb) s
[...]
> /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pygame/__init__.py(214)<module>()
-> try: import pygame.time
(Pdb) n
> /usr/lib64/python2.6/site-packages/pygame/__init__.py(217)<module>()
-> try: import pygame.transform
(Pdb) s
Fatal Python error: (pygame parachute) Segmentation Fault
Aborted

it seems to crash right after the inittransform function.
I have no idea what's going on. Any help is appreciated.

some information about my system that may be relevant:
$ uname -a
Linux horst 2.6.27-gentoo-r4 #9 SMP Sat Jan 10 19:56:02 CET 2009 x86_64 
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6600 @ 2.40GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

$ python
Python 2.6.2 (r262:71600, May  1 2009, 15:24:32)
[GCC 4.3.3] on linux2

pygame revision: 2282


sincerely yours
Lorenz


PS: the latest ebuild available in portage is for pygame-1.8.1 and works fine.