diff --git a/srcpkgs/vte/patches/cross-python.patch b/srcpkgs/vte/patches/cross-python.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index b3f2574bfc2..00000000000
--- a/srcpkgs/vte/patches/cross-python.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,13 +0,0 @@
---- configure.in.orig	2018-09-02 12:20:57.364425905 +0200
-+++ configure.in	2018-09-02 12:21:18.834425049 +0200
-@@ -483,10 +483,6 @@
- fi
- 
- if $BUILD_PYTHON ; then
--	AM_CHECK_PYTHON_HEADERS(,BUILD_PYTHON=false)
--fi
--
--if $BUILD_PYTHON ; then
- 	AC_MSG_CHECKING([for pygtk-2.0])
- 	if pkg-config --exists pygtk-2.0 ; then
- 		AC_MSG_RESULT([found])
diff --git a/srcpkgs/vte/template b/srcpkgs/vte/template
index c8fa6b47244..da7295784bf 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/vte/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/vte/template
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ pkgname=vte
 version=0.28.2
 revision=15
 build_style=gnu-configure
-configure_args="--disable-static --with-gtk=2.0"
+configure_args="PYTHON=python2 --disable-static --with-gtk=2.0"
 hostmakedepends="automake gettext-devel gtk-doc gobject-introspection libtool
  pkg-config intltool python-devel glib-devel pygtk-devel"
 makedepends="gtk+-devel ncurses-devel python-devel pygtk-devel"
@@ -14,13 +14,11 @@ license="LGPL-2.1-or-later"
 distfiles="${GNOME_SITE}/vte/0.28/${pkgname}-${version}.tar.bz2"
 checksum=8d04e202b617373dfb47689e5e628febe2c58840b34cccc4af4feb88c48df903
 
-CFLAGS="-I${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include/python2.7"
-
 pre_configure() {
 	NOCONFIGURE=1 autoreconf -fi
-}
-do_configure() {
-	env PYTHON=python2 ./configure ${configure_args}
+	if [ "$CROSS_BUILD" ]; then
+		sed -i "s,\(PYTHON_INCLUDES\)=.*,\1=-I${XBPS_CROSS_BASE}/usr/include/python2.7,g" configure
+	fi
 }
 
 vte-python_package() {