diff --git a/devel/py-xdg/Makefile b/devel/py-xdg/Makefile
index 42e77b9ffb3..d339722788b 100644
--- a/devel/py-xdg/Makefile
+++ b/devel/py-xdg/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.3 2008/10/30 14:19:24 ajacoutot Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.4 2008/10/30 14:23:31 ajacoutot Exp $
 
 COMMENT=		python library to access freedesktop.org standards
 
@@ -24,6 +24,6 @@ MODULES=		lang/python
 NO_REGRESS=		Yes
 
 pre-configure:
-	${SUBST_CMD} ${WRKSRC}/xdg/BaseDirectory.py
+	${SUBST_CMD} ${WRKSRC}/xdg/{BaseDirectory.py,Menu.py}
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/devel/py-xdg/patches/patch-xdg_Menu_py b/devel/py-xdg/patches/patch-xdg_Menu_py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..5a878b89e3b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/devel/py-xdg/patches/patch-xdg_Menu_py
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+$OpenBSD: patch-xdg_Menu_py,v 1.3 2008/10/30 14:23:31 ajacoutot Exp $
+--- xdg/Menu.py.orig	Thu Oct 30 15:20:37 2008
++++ xdg/Menu.py	Thu Oct 30 15:20:49 2008
+@@ -495,7 +495,7 @@ def parse(filename=None):
+         filename = __getFileName("applications.menu")
+ 
+     if not filename:
+-        raise ParsingError('File not found', "/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu")
++        raise ParsingError('File not found', "${SYSCONFDIR}/xdg/menus/applications.menu")
+ 
+     # check if it is a .menu file
+     if not os.path.splitext(filename)[1] == ".menu":