diff --git a/src/Makefile b/src/Makefile
index 6ad52779a210481051fb985403645ddc5c1fd1d0..c07daba9580e013e51d5a21c61981dffde92f76c 100644
--- a/src/Makefile
+++ b/src/Makefile
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 # Set the C flags to include the GTK+ and Python libraries
-PYTHONVER = `python -c 'import sys; print sys.version[:3]'`
+PYTHON = python
+PYTHONVER = `$(PYTHON) -c 'import sys; print sys.version[:3]'`
 CFLAGS = `pkg-config --cflags gtk+-2.0 pygtk-2.0` -fPIC -I/usr/include/python$(PYTHONVER) -I.
 LDFLAGS = `pkg-config --libs gtk+-2.0 pygtk-2.0` -lpython$(PYTHONVER)