diff --git a/packages/lang/Python/build b/packages/lang/Python/build
index 811f6ff05b..28d84aa77c 100755
--- a/packages/lang/Python/build
+++ b/packages/lang/Python/build
@@ -75,7 +75,9 @@ make  -j1 CC="$TARGET_CC" \
       BLDSHARED="$CC -shared" \
       PYTHON_DISABLE_MODULES="$PY_DISABLED_MODULES" \
       CROSS_COMPILE="$TARGET_NAME" \
-      CROSS_COMPILE_TARGET="yes"
+      CROSS_COMPILE_TARGET="yes" \
+      PYTHON_MODULES_INCLUDE=$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/include \
+      PYTHON_MODULES_LIB="$SYSROOT_PREFIX/lib $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib" \
 
 make  -j1 CC="$TARGET_CC" \
       DESTDIR=$SYSROOT_PREFIX \
@@ -85,6 +87,8 @@ make  -j1 CC="$TARGET_CC" \
       PYTHON_DISABLE_MODULES="$PY_DISABLED_MODULES" \
       CROSS_COMPILE="$TARGET_NAME" \
       CROSS_COMPILE_TARGET="yes" \
+      PYTHON_MODULES_INCLUDE=$SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/include \
+      PYTHON_MODULES_LIB="$SYSROOT_PREFIX/lib $SYSROOT_PREFIX/usr/lib" \
       install
 
 cp -R ../Lib ./
diff --git a/packages/lang/Python/patches/002-Python-2.6.6-xcompile_path-0.1.diff b/packages/lang/Python/patches/002-Python-2.6.6-xcompile_path-0.1.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..1685b1d701
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/lang/Python/patches/002-Python-2.6.6-xcompile_path-0.1.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,52 @@
+diff -Naur Python-2.6.6/setup.py Python-2.6.6.patch/setup.py
+--- Python-2.6.6/setup.py	2010-11-03 00:08:13.955365257 +0100
++++ Python-2.6.6.patch/setup.py	2010-11-03 00:11:49.838882245 +0100
+@@ -361,9 +361,18 @@
+         return sys.platform
+ 
+     def detect_modules(self):
+-        # Ensure that /usr/local is always used
+-        add_dir_to_list(self.compiler.library_dirs, '/usr/local/lib')
+-        add_dir_to_list(self.compiler.include_dirs, '/usr/local/include')
++        try:
++            modules_include_dirs = os.environ["PYTHON_MODULES_INCLUDE"].split()
++        except KeyError:
++            modules_include_dirs = ['/usr/include']
++        try:
++            modules_lib_dirs = os.environ["PYTHON_MODULES_LIB"].split()
++        except KeyError:
++            modules_lib_dirs = ['/usr/lib']
++        for dir in modules_include_dirs:
++                add_dir_to_list(self.compiler.include_dirs, dir)
++        for dir in modules_lib_dirs:
++                add_dir_to_list(self.compiler.library_dirs, dir)
+ 
+         # Add paths specified in the environment variables LDFLAGS and
+         # CPPFLAGS for header and library files.
+@@ -399,12 +408,6 @@
+                     for directory in reversed(options.dirs):
+                         add_dir_to_list(dir_list, directory)
+ 
+-        if os.path.normpath(sys.prefix) != '/usr':
+-            add_dir_to_list(self.compiler.library_dirs,
+-                            sysconfig.get_config_var("LIBDIR"))
+-            add_dir_to_list(self.compiler.include_dirs,
+-                            sysconfig.get_config_var("INCLUDEDIR"))
+-
+         try:
+             have_unicode = unicode
+         except NameError:
+@@ -413,11 +416,8 @@
+         # lib_dirs and inc_dirs are used to search for files;
+         # if a file is found in one of those directories, it can
+         # be assumed that no additional -I,-L directives are needed.
+-        lib_dirs = self.compiler.library_dirs + [
+-            '/lib64', '/usr/lib64',
+-            '/lib', '/usr/lib',
+-            ]
+-        inc_dirs = self.compiler.include_dirs + ['/usr/include']
++        lib_dirs = self.compiler.library_dirs
++        inc_dirs = self.compiler.include_dirs
+         exts = []
+         missing = []
+ 
diff --git a/packages/lang/Python/patches/003-Python-2.6.6-xcompile-disable_modules_and_ssl-0.1.diff b/packages/lang/Python/patches/003-Python-2.6.6-xcompile-disable_modules_and_ssl-0.1.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..89df2beedb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/lang/Python/patches/003-Python-2.6.6-xcompile-disable_modules_and_ssl-0.1.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+diff -Naur Python-2.6.6/setup.py Python-2.6.6.patch/setup.py
+--- Python-2.6.6/setup.py	2010-11-03 00:17:10.403608974 +0100
++++ Python-2.6.6.patch/setup.py	2010-11-03 00:23:31.624025348 +0100
+@@ -18,7 +18,14 @@
+ from distutils.spawn import find_executable
+ 
+ # This global variable is used to hold the list of modules to be disabled.
+-disabled_module_list = []
++try:
++	disabled_module_list = os.environ["PYTHON_DISABLE_MODULES"].split()
++except KeyError:
++	disabled_module_list = []
++try:
++	disable_ssl = os.environ["PYTHON_DISABLE_SSL"]
++except KeyError:
++	disable_ssl = 0
+ 
+ def add_dir_to_list(dirlist, dir):
+     """Add the directory 'dir' to the list 'dirlist' (at the front) if
+@@ -361,6 +368,8 @@
+         return sys.platform
+ 
+     def detect_modules(self):
++        global disable_ssl
++
+         try:
+             modules_include_dirs = os.environ["PYTHON_MODULES_INCLUDE"].split()
+         except KeyError:
+@@ -714,7 +723,8 @@
+                                      ] )
+ 
+         if (ssl_incs is not None and
+-            ssl_libs is not None):
++            ssl_libs is not None and
++                     not disable_ssl):
+             exts.append( Extension('_ssl', ['_ssl.c'],
+                                    include_dirs = ssl_incs,
+                                    library_dirs = ssl_libs,