diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-cairo/files/python-config b/srcpkgs/python-cairo/files/python-config
deleted file mode 100644
index ee6ce9e04a2..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/python-cairo/files/python-config
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,9 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-# python wrapper for cross compilation in xbps
-# we simply fake the output of --includes with the cross prefix.
-if [ "$1" = "--includes" ]; then
-	echo "-I${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include/python2.7"
-fi
-
-exit 0
diff --git a/srcpkgs/python-cairo/template b/srcpkgs/python-cairo/template
index 8c68612ac78..64d65b80d88 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/python-cairo/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/python-cairo/template
@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ revision=4
 lib32disabled=yes
 wrksrc="py2cairo-${version}"
 build_style=gnu-configure
+configure_args="PYTHON=python"
 hostmakedepends="automake libtool pkg-config which python-devel"
 makedepends="cairo-devel python-devel"
 depends="python>=2.7"
@@ -20,15 +21,9 @@ checksum=d30439f06c2ec1a39e27464c6c828b6eface3b22ee17b2de05dc409e429a7431
 pre_configure() {
 	touch ChangeLog
 	NOCONFIGURE=1 autoreconf -fi
-}
-
-do_configure() {
 	if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
-		# create a python-config wrapper to fake --includes
-		install -m755 ${FILESDIR}/python-config ${wrksrc}
-		export PATH=${wrksrc}:$PATH
+		ln -s ${wrksrc}/.xbps/bin/python-config ${wrksrc}
 	fi
-	env PYTHON=python ./configure ${configure_args}
 }
 
 python-cairo-devel_package() {