diff --git a/vars/build.vars b/vars/build.vars
index 825494d..0ff4b2e 100644
--- a/vars/build.vars
+++ b/vars/build.vars
@@ -357,7 +357,7 @@ HOST_PACKAGES_DEPS_PREFIX="${PREFIX}";
 : ${PKG_PYTHON2_HOST_SHA256SUM:=304c9b202ea6fbd0a4a8e0ad3733715fbd4749f2204a9173a58ec53c32ea73e8};
 : ${PKG_PYTHON2_HOST_VERSION:=2.7.14};
 : ${PKG_PYTHON2_HOST_URL:=https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${PKG_PYTHON2_HOST_VERSION}/Python-${PKG_PYTHON2_HOST_VERSION}.tgz};
-: ${PKG_PYTHON2_HOST_CONFIGURE_ARGS_EXTRA:="--enable-ipv6 --enable-shared --enable-unicode=ucs4 --with-system-expat"};
+: ${PKG_PYTHON2_HOST_CONFIGURE_ARGS_EXTRA:="--enable-ipv6 --enable-shared --enable-unicode=ucs4 --with-system-expat --with-system-ffi"};
 : ${PKG_GLIB_HOST_SHA256SUM:=fe22998ff0394ec31e6e5511c379b74011bee61a4421bca7fcab223dfbe0fc6a};
 : ${PKG_GLIB_HOST_VERSION:=2.54.0};
 : ${PKG_GLIB_HOST_URL:=http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/GNOME/sources/glib/${PKG_GLIB_HOST_VERSION%.[0-9]}/glib-${PKG_GLIB_HOST_VERSION}.tar.xz};