diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index 97b2861..89fe23a 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -366,6 +366,7 @@
 INSTALLKERNEL  := installkernel
 DEPMOD		= /sbin/depmod
 PERL		= perl
+PYTHON		= python
 CHECK		= sparse
 
 CHECKFLAGS     := -D__linux__ -Dlinux -D__STDC__ -Dunix -D__unix__ \
@@ -416,7 +417,7 @@
 export VERSION PATCHLEVEL SUBLEVEL KERNELRELEASE KERNELVERSION
 export ARCH SRCARCH CONFIG_SHELL HOSTCC HOSTCFLAGS CROSS_COMPILE AS LD CC
 export CPP AR NM STRIP OBJCOPY OBJDUMP
-export MAKE AWK GENKSYMS INSTALLKERNEL PERL UTS_MACHINE
+export MAKE AWK GENKSYMS INSTALLKERNEL PERL PYTHON UTS_MACHINE
 export HOSTCXX HOSTCXXFLAGS LDFLAGS_MODULE CHECK CHECKFLAGS
 
 export KBUILD_CPPFLAGS NOSTDINC_FLAGS LINUXINCLUDE OBJCOPYFLAGS LDFLAGS