epylog-1.0.7-14.fc26 fails to build in F26:

+ ./configure --build=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --host=i386-redhat-linux-gnu --program-prefix= --disable-dependency-tracking --prefix=/usr --exec-prefix=/usr --bindir=/usr/bin --sbindir=/usr/sbin --sysconfdir=/etc --datadir=/usr/share --includedir=/usr/include --libdir=/usr/lib --libexecdir=/usr/libexec --localstatedir=/var --sharedstatedir=/var/lib --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --with-python=/usr/bin/python --with-python-dirs= --with-lynx=/usr/bin/links --with-site-perl=/usr/share/perl5/vendor_perl
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-dependency-tracking
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /usr/bin/install -c
checking for --with-python... /usr/bin/python
checking for --with-crondir... will use /etc/cron.daily
checking Python version... ./configure: line 1919: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory
./configure: line 1920: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory
./configure: line 1921: /usr/bin/python: No such file or directory
./configure: line 1926: test: : integer expression expected
./configure: line 1927: test: : integer expression expected
checking for libxml2... configure: error: libxml2 not found.
This version of epylog requires libxml2-python.
See http://xmlsoft.org/ or install libxml2-python rpm.
RPM build errors:
error: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.FQsrxk (%prep)

This is because python package was removed from minimal build root.