diff --git a/x11/gnome/empathy/Makefile b/x11/gnome/empathy/Makefile
index 03563e32619..b74fd7f7e54 100644
--- a/x11/gnome/empathy/Makefile
+++ b/x11/gnome/empathy/Makefile
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.9 2008/09/28 09:16:24 sturm Exp $
+# $OpenBSD: Makefile,v 1.10 2008/10/22 19:37:49 jasper Exp $
 
 COMMENT= 		telepathy based messenger for the Gnome desktop
 
@@ -59,4 +59,9 @@ CONFIGURE_ARGS+=	${CONFIGURE_SHARED} \
 CONFIGURE_ENV=		CPPFLAGS="-I${LOCALBASE}/include" \
 			LDFLAGS="-L${LOCALBASE}/lib"
 
+pre-configure:
+	@ln -s ${LOCALBASE}/bin/python${MODPY_VERSION}-config ${WRKDIR}/bin/python-config
+
+
+
 .include <bsd.port.mk>