diff --git a/gpgme.spec b/gpgme.spec
index d3a5b4f..de6b7cd 100644
--- a/gpgme.spec
+++ b/gpgme.spec
@@ -125,6 +125,10 @@ Obsoletes:      platform-python-gpg < %{version}-%{release}
 # set it to a value which we know will be suppressed.
 sed -i -e 's|^libdir=@libdir@$|libdir=@exec_prefix@/lib|g' src/gpgme-config.in
 
+# The build machinery does not support Python 3.9+ yet
+# https://github.com/gpg/gpgme/pull/4
+sed -i 's/3.8/%{python3_version}/g' configure
+
 %build
 # People neeed to learn that you can't run autogen.sh anymore
 #./autogen.sh