--- a/bindings/python/wscript	Mon Jul 11 14:24:59 2011 +0100
+++ b/bindings/python/wscript	Tue Jul 12 11:02:40 2011 +0100
@@ -121,7 +121,7 @@
         pydir = conf.environ['PYTHONDIR']
     else:
         (pydir,) = _get_python_variables(conf.env['PYTHON'],
-                                         ["get_python_lib(standard_lib=0, prefix=%r)" % conf.env['PREFIX']],
+                                         ["get_python_lib(plat_specific=1, standard_lib=0, prefix=%r)" % conf.env['PREFIX']],
                                          ['from distutils.sysconfig import get_python_lib'])
     if hasattr(conf, 'define'): # conf.define is added by the C tool, so may not exist
         conf.define('PYTHONDIR', pydir)