diff --git a/packages/python/build.sh b/packages/python/build.sh
index 70d780a2a7..510a22422a 100644
--- a/packages/python/build.sh
+++ b/packages/python/build.sh
@@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOSTBUILD=true
 
 _MAJOR_VERSION=3.5
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.0
-TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_REVISION=1
+TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_REVISION=2
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://www.python.org/ftp/python/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/Python-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 
 # The flag --with(out)-pymalloc (disable/enable specialized mallocs) is enabled by default and causes m suffix versions of python.
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@ TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" ac_cv_func_faccessat=no"
 # The gethostbyname_r function does not exist on device libc:
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" ac_cv_func_gethostbyname_r=no"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" --build=$TERMUX_HOST_TUPLE --disable-ipv6 --with-system-ffi --without-ensurepip"
+# Hard links does not work on Android 6:
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" ac_cv_func_linkat=no"
 TERMUX_PKG_RM_AFTER_INSTALL="lib/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}/test lib/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}/tkinter lib/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}/turtledemo lib/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}/idlelib bin/python${_MAJOR_VERSION}m bin/python*-config bin/idle* bin/pyvenv*"
 
 # Python does not use CPPFLAGS when building modules, so add this to CFLAGS as well (needed when building _cursesmodule):
diff --git a/packages/python/configure.patch b/packages/python/configure.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..8ae0eb18be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/python/configure.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -u -r ../Python-3.5.0/configure ./configure
+--- ../Python-3.5.0/configure	2015-09-13 07:41:26.000000000 -0400
++++ ./configure	2015-10-19 19:09:59.295440276 -0400
+@@ -10946,8 +10946,6 @@
+ _ACEOF
+ if ac_fn_c_try_compile "$LINENO"; then :
+ 
+-$as_echo "#define HAVE_LINK 1" >>confdefs.h
+-
+    { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: yes" >&5
+ $as_echo "yes" >&6; }
+ else
diff --git a/packages/python2/build.sh b/packages/python2/build.sh
index 18c23aac78..e345b2e926 100644
--- a/packages/python2/build.sh
+++ b/packages/python2/build.sh
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_HOSTBUILD=true
 
 _MAJOR_VERSION=2.7
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.10
-TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_REVISION=2
+TERMUX_PKG_BUILD_REVISION=3
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://www.python.org/ftp/python/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/Python-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 
 # The flag --with(out)-pymalloc (disable/enable specialized mallocs) is enabled by default and causes m suffix versions of python.
diff --git a/packages/python2/configure.patch b/packages/python2/configure.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..ec7a843c94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/packages/python2/configure.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+diff -u -r ../Python-2.7.10/configure ./configure
+--- ../Python-2.7.10/configure	2015-05-23 12:09:25.000000000 -0400
++++ ./configure	2015-10-20 09:54:55.481316335 -0400
+@@ -10310,7 +10310,7 @@
+ _ACEOF
+ if ac_fn_c_try_compile "$LINENO"; then :
+ 
+-$as_echo "#define HAVE_LINK 1" >>confdefs.h
++# $as_echo "#define HAVE_LINK 1" >>confdefs.h
+ 
+    { $as_echo "$as_me:${as_lineno-$LINENO}: result: yes" >&5
+ $as_echo "yes" >&6; }