diff --git a/PC/pyconfig.h b/PC/pyconfig.h
index a2d024d..bab9d5a 100644
--- a/PC/pyconfig.h
+++ b/PC/pyconfig.h
@@ -694,6 +694,6 @@
 #define HAVE_INET_PTON 1
 
 /* framework name */
-#define PYTHONFRAMEWORK ""
+#define _PYTHONFRAMEWORK ""
 
 #endif /* !Py_CONFIG_H */
diff --git a/Python/sysmodule.c b/Python/sysmodule.c
index 84673e3..ab435c8 100644
--- a/Python/sysmodule.c
+++ b/Python/sysmodule.c
@@ -1965,7 +1965,7 @@
     SET_SYS_FROM_STRING("_git",
                         Py_BuildValue("(szz)", "CPython", _Py_gitidentifier(),
                                       _Py_gitversion()));
-    SET_SYS_FROM_STRING("_framework", PyUnicode_FromString(PYTHONFRAMEWORK));
+    SET_SYS_FROM_STRING("_framework", PyUnicode_FromString(_PYTHONFRAMEWORK));
     SET_SYS_FROM_STRING("api_version",
                         PyLong_FromLong(PYTHON_API_VERSION));
     SET_SYS_FROM_STRING("copyright",
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index ff8152d..3a28cad 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -3245,7 +3245,7 @@
 
 
 cat >>confdefs.h <<_ACEOF
-#define PYTHONFRAMEWORK "${PYTHONFRAMEWORK}"
+#define _PYTHONFRAMEWORK "${PYTHONFRAMEWORK}"
 _ACEOF
 
 
diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
index 815769f..8253102 100644
--- a/configure.ac
+++ b/configure.ac
@@ -355,7 +355,7 @@
 AC_SUBST(FRAMEWORKUNIXTOOLSPREFIX)
 AC_SUBST(FRAMEWORKINSTALLAPPSPREFIX)
 
-AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(PYTHONFRAMEWORK, "${PYTHONFRAMEWORK}", [framework name])
+AC_DEFINE_UNQUOTED(_PYTHONFRAMEWORK, "${PYTHONFRAMEWORK}", [framework name])
 
 ##AC_ARG_WITH(dyld,
 ##            AS_HELP_STRING([--with-dyld],
diff --git a/pyconfig.h.in b/pyconfig.h.in
index f7c50ea..b4d1f1b 100644
--- a/pyconfig.h.in
+++ b/pyconfig.h.in
@@ -1247,9 +1247,6 @@
 /* Define as the preferred size in bits of long digits */
 #undef PYLONG_BITS_IN_DIGIT
 
-/* framework name */
-#undef PYTHONFRAMEWORK
-
 /* Define if you want to coerce the C locale to a UTF-8 based locale */
 #undef PY_COERCE_C_LOCALE
 
@@ -1464,6 +1461,9 @@
 /* Define if you have POSIX threads, and your system does not define that. */
 #undef _POSIX_THREADS
 
+/* framework name */
+#undef _PYTHONFRAMEWORK
+
 /* Define to force use of thread-safe errno, h_errno, and other functions */
 #undef _REENTRANT