diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 1ba985f..8cf777e 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -707,6 +707,7 @@
 CONFIGURE_MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
 EXTRAMACHDEPPATH
 EXTRAPLATDIR
+PLATDIR
 SGI_ABI
 _PYTHON_HOST_PLATFORM
 MACHDEP
@@ -2891,7 +2892,7 @@
 	fi
         { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $interp" >&5
 $as_echo "$interp" >&6; }
-	PYTHON_FOR_BUILD='_PYTHON_PROJECT_BASE=$(abs_builddir) _PYTHON_HOST_PLATFORM=$(_PYTHON_HOST_PLATFORM) PYTHONPATH=$(shell test -f pybuilddir.txt && echo $(abs_builddir)/`cat pybuilddir.txt`:)$(srcdir)/Lib:$(srcdir)/Lib/plat-$(MACHDEP) '$interp
+	PYTHON_FOR_BUILD='_PYTHON_PROJECT_BASE=$(abs_builddir) _PYTHON_HOST_PLATFORM=$(_PYTHON_HOST_PLATFORM) PYTHONPATH=$(shell test -f pybuilddir.txt && echo $(abs_builddir)/`cat pybuilddir.txt`:)$(srcdir)/Lib:$(srcdir)/Lib/$(PLATDIR) '$interp
     fi
 elif test "$cross_compiling" = maybe; then
     as_fn_error $? "Cross compiling required --host=HOST-TUPLE and --build=ARCH" "$LINENO" 5
@@ -3380,6 +3381,9 @@
 { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: $MACHDEP" >&5
 $as_echo "$MACHDEP" >&6; }
 
+
+PLATDIR=plat-$MACHDEP
+
 # And add extra plat-mac for darwin
 
 
@@ -10238,8 +10242,8 @@
 # checks for library functions
 for ac_func in alarm setitimer getitimer bind_textdomain_codeset chown \
  clock confstr ctermid execv fchmod fchown fork fpathconf ftime ftruncate \
- gai_strerror getentropy getgroups getlogin getloadavg getpeername getpgid \
- getpid \
+ gai_strerror getgroups getlogin getloadavg getpeername getpgid getpid \
+ getentropy \
  getpriority getresuid getresgid getpwent getspnam getspent getsid getwd \
  initgroups kill killpg lchmod lchown lstat mkfifo mknod mktime mmap \
  mremap nice pathconf pause plock poll pthread_init \