diff --git a/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/build b/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/build
index d18c698a0d..de5b62cfb5 100755
--- a/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/build
+++ b/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/build
@@ -4,15 +4,16 @@
 
 $SCRIPTS/build toolchain
 $SCRIPTS/build Python
+$SCRIPTS/build distutilscross
 $SCRIPTS/build openssl
 
-. config/options.python
+export PYTHONXCPREFIX="$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr"
+export LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib -L$SYSROOT_PREFIX/lib"
 
 cd $PKG_BUILD
 
-$PYTHON setup.py build
-
-$PYTHON setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --prefix /usr --root .install
+python setup.py build --cross-compile
+python setup.py install -O1 --skip-build --prefix /usr --root .install
 
 find .install -name "*.py" -exec rm -rf "{}" ";"
 find .install -name "*.pyo" -exec rm -rf "{}" ";"
diff --git a/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/patches/pyOpenSSL-setuptools.diff b/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/patches/pyOpenSSL-setuptools.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b93a8d3126
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/python/security/pyOpenSSL/patches/pyOpenSSL-setuptools.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -Naur pyOpenSSL-0.10/setup.py pyOpenSSL-0.10.patch/setup.py
+--- pyOpenSSL-0.10/setup.py	2009-11-13 16:36:16.000000000 +0100
++++ pyOpenSSL-0.10.patch/setup.py	2010-10-19 00:24:51.858811333 +0200
+@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
+ distutils.log.set_verbosity(3)
+ 
+ import sys, os
+-from distutils.core import Extension, setup
++from setuptools import Extension, setup
+ from distutils.errors import DistutilsFileError
+ from distutils.command.build_ext import build_ext
+