diff --git a/vars/build.vars b/vars/build.vars
index a0de085..e018c7e 100644
--- a/vars/build.vars
+++ b/vars/build.vars
@@ -637,7 +637,7 @@ HOST_PACKAGES_DEPS_PREFIX="${PREFIX}";
 : ${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};
 : ${PKG_GLIB_HOST_BUILD_STEPS_DISABLE:=configure_patch};
-: ${PKG_GLIB_HOST_CONFIGURE_ARGS_EXTRA:="--with-pcre=internal --disable-dtrace --disable-libelf --disable-libmount"};
+: ${PKG_GLIB_HOST_CONFIGURE_ARGS_EXTRA:="--with-pcre=internal --with-python=${PREFIX}/bin/python3 --disable-dtrace --disable-libelf --disable-libmount"};
 : ${PKG_GLIB_HOST_CFLAGS_BUILD_EXTRA:="-Wno-missing-include-dirs -Wno-format-nonliteral -Wno-format-overflow"};
 : ${PKG_GLIB_HOST_ENV_VARS_EXTRA:="LIBFFI_CFLAGS=-I${PREFIX}/lib/libffi-${PKG_LIBFFI_HOST_VERSION}/include:LIBFFI_LIBS=-L${PREFIX}/lib -lffi"};
 : ${PKG_GLIB_HOST_LDFLAGS_CONFIGURE_EXTRA:=-L${PREFIX}/lib};