diff --git a/packages/recoll/build.sh b/packages/recoll/build.sh
index 00c3e2eee85c774..dc8cff33db90ddc 100644
--- a/packages/recoll/build.sh
+++ b/packages/recoll/build.sh
@@ -7,9 +7,11 @@ TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=http://www.lesbonscomptes.com/recoll/recoll-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSI
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=025dec0b9745e1ddacd86ee5478f9c52b2da2e5c307f831aaa5b2c7f9d7e8db9
 TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="aspell, libxapian, libxslt, zlib, python"
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS=" --disable-userdoc --disable-python-chm --disable-x11mon --disable-qtgui"
-
+TERMUX_PKG_REVISION=1
 
 termux_step_pre_configure() {
 	LDFLAGS+=" $($CC -print-libgcc-file-name)"
 	CXXFLAGS+=" -fPIC"
+	_PYTHON_VERSION=$(source $TERMUX_SCRIPTDIR/packages/python/build.sh; echo $_MAJOR_VERSION)
+	CPPFLAGS+=" -I${TERMUX_PREFIX}/include/python${_PYTHON_VERSION}/"
 }
diff --git a/packages/recoll/fix-python-prefix.patch b/packages/recoll/fix-python-prefix.patch
deleted file mode 100644
index 65c2fd2912fb70a..000000000000000
--- a/packages/recoll/fix-python-prefix.patch
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,77 +0,0 @@
-diff --git src/python/recoll/pyrclextract.cpp src/python/recoll/pyrclextract.cpp
-index 96325856..f6040848 100644
---- src/python/recoll/pyrclextract.cpp
-+++ src/python/recoll/pyrclextract.cpp
-@@ -16,9 +16,9 @@
-  */
- 
- 
--#include <Python.h>
--#include <structmember.h>
--#include <bytearrayobject.h>
-+#include <@TERMUX_PREFIX@/include/python3.10/Python.h>
-+#include <@TERMUX_PREFIX@/include/python3.10/structmember.h>
-+#include <@TERMUX_PREFIX@/include/python3.10/bytearrayobject.h>
- 
- #include <string>
- #include <memory>
-diff --git src/python/recoll/pyrecoll.cpp src/python/recoll/pyrecoll.cpp
-index 18df550b..0cb42b91 100644
---- src/python/recoll/pyrecoll.cpp
-+++ src/python/recoll/pyrecoll.cpp
-@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@
-  * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
-  */
- 
--#include <Python.h>
--#include <structmember.h>
--#include <bytesobject.h>
-+#include <@TERMUX_PREFIX@/include/python3.10/Python.h>
-+#include <@TERMUX_PREFIX@/include/python3.10/structmember.h>
-+#include <@TERMUX_PREFIX@/include/python3.10/bytesobject.h>
- 
- #include <string>
- #include <iostream>
-diff --git src/python/recoll/pyrecoll.h src/python/recoll/pyrecoll.h
-index 8d6403f8..8b3cd7a3 100644
---- src/python/recoll/pyrecoll.h
-+++ src/python/recoll/pyrecoll.h
-@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
- 
- /* Shared definitions for pyrecoll.cpp and pyrclextract.cpp */
- 
--#include <Python.h>
-+#include <@TERMUX_PREFIX@/include/python3.10/Python.h>
- 
- #include <memory>
- #include <string>
-diff --git src/python/recoll/pyresultstore.cpp src/python/recoll/pyresultstore.cpp
-index 45ee01a3..b4a77deb 100644
---- src/python/recoll/pyresultstore.cpp
-+++ src/python/recoll/pyresultstore.cpp
-@@ -15,9 +15,9 @@
-  * 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301 USA.
-  */
- 
--#include <Python.h>
--#include <structmember.h>
--#include <bytesobject.h>
-+#include <@TERMUX_PREFIX@/include/python3.10/Python.h>
-+#include <@TERMUX_PREFIX@/include/python3.10/structmember.h>
-+#include <@TERMUX_PREFIX@/include/python3.10/bytesobject.h>
- 
- #include <string>
- #include <iostream>
-diff --git src/python/recoll/setup.py.in src/python/recoll/setup.py.in
-index 0409cb9d..7812ebce 100644
---- src/python/recoll/setup.py.in
-+++ src/python/recoll/setup.py.in
-@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ if "CYGWIN" in os.environ:
- else:
- 	libraries = ['recoll']
- 	
--extra_compile_args = ['-std=c++11']
-+extra_compile_args = ['-std=c++11', '-fPIC']
- 
- VERSION = open(os.path.join(top, "RECOLL-VERSION.txt")).read().strip()
-