diff --git a/srcpkgs/py2cairo/files/python-config b/srcpkgs/py2cairo/files/python-config
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..18a00e1a4d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/srcpkgs/py2cairo/files/python-config
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+#!/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
+
+return 0
diff --git a/srcpkgs/py2cairo/template b/srcpkgs/py2cairo/template
index 99afada837..0f4ed4365f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/py2cairo/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/py2cairo/template
@@ -2,8 +2,8 @@
 pkgname=py2cairo
 version=1.10.0
 revision=2
-build_style=waf
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config which"
+build_style=gnu-configure
+hostmakedepends="automake libtool pkg-config which python-devel"
 makedepends="cairo-devel python-devel"
 depends="python"
 replaces="pycairo<1.10"
@@ -15,9 +15,23 @@ maintainer="Juan RP <xtraeme@gmail.com>"
 distfiles="http://cairographics.org/releases/$pkgname-$version.tar.bz2"
 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
+	fi
+	env PYTHON=python ./configure ${configure_args}
+}
+
 py2cairo-devel_package() {
 	replaces="pycairo-devel<1.10"
-	depends="python-devel ${sourcepkg}>=${version}"
+	depends="python-devel ${sourcepkg}>=${version}_${revision}"
 	short_desc+=" - development files"
 	pkg_install() {
 		vmove usr/include