diff --git a/packages/python/system/PyBluez/build b/packages/python/system/PyBluez/build
index c76afcfd12..878ba9a4cc 100755
--- a/packages/python/system/PyBluez/build
+++ b/packages/python/system/PyBluez/build
@@ -4,15 +4,17 @@
 
 $SCRIPTS/build toolchain
 $SCRIPTS/build Python
+$SCRIPTS/build distutilscross
+$SCRIPTS/build distribute
 $SCRIPTS/build bluez
 
-. 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/system/PyBluez/install b/packages/python/system/PyBluez/install
index 798327d802..eea8ed6655 100755
--- a/packages/python/system/PyBluez/install
+++ b/packages/python/system/PyBluez/install
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@
 . config/options $1
 
 $SCRIPTS/install Python
+$SCRIPTS/install distribute
 $SCRIPTS/install bluez
 
 cp -PR $PKG_BUILD/.install/* $INSTALL
diff --git a/packages/python/system/PyBluez/patches/PyBluez-setuptools.diff b/packages/python/system/PyBluez/patches/PyBluez-setuptools.diff
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..db3c2be711
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/python/system/PyBluez/patches/PyBluez-setuptools.diff
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+diff -Naur PyBluez-0.18/setup.py PyBluez-0.18.patch/setup.py
+--- PyBluez-0.18/setup.py	2009-11-25 23:39:55.000000000 +0100
++++ PyBluez-0.18.patch/setup.py	2010-10-18 23:47:16.585821819 +0200
+@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
+ #!/usr/bin/env python
+ 
+-from distutils.core import setup, Extension
++from setuptools import setup
++from setuptools.extension import Extension
+ from distutils.debug import DEBUG
++
+ import sys
+ import os
+