diff --git a/packages/lang/Python/config/Setup b/packages/lang/Python/config/Setup
index 6fc994e342..773bee65d1 100644
--- a/packages/lang/Python/config/Setup
+++ b/packages/lang/Python/config/Setup
@@ -212,9 +212,7 @@ _socket socketmodule.c
 # Socket module helper for SSL support; you must comment out the other
 # socket line above, and possibly edit the SSL variable:
 #SSL=/usr/local/ssl
-_ssl _ssl.c \
-	-DUSE_SSL -I$(SSL)/include -I$(SSL)/include/openssl \
-	-L$(SSL)/lib -lssl -lcrypto
+_ssl _ssl.c -DUSE_SSL -lssl -lcrypto
 
 # The crypt module is now disabled by default because it breaks builds
 # on many systems (where -lcrypt is needed), e.g. Linux (I believe).