diff --git a/packages/python/build.sh b/packages/python/build.sh
index ae49951b3..43ac00d4c 100644
--- a/packages/python/build.sh
+++ b/packages/python/build.sh
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ _MAJOR_VERSION=3.10
 TERMUX_PKG_VERSION=${_MAJOR_VERSION}.0
 TERMUX_PKG_SRCURL=https://www.python.org/ftp/python/${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}/Python-${TERMUX_PKG_VERSION}.tar.xz
 TERMUX_PKG_SHA256=5a99f8e7a6a11a7b98b4e75e0d1303d3832cada5534068f69c7b6222a7b1b002
-TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="gdbm, libandroid-support, libbz2, libcrypt, libffi, liblzma, libsqlite, ncurses, ncurses-ui-libs, openssl, readline, zlib"
+TERMUX_PKG_DEPENDS="gdbm, libandroid-support, libbz2, libcrypt, libexpat, libffi, liblzma, libsqlite, ncurses, ncurses-ui-libs, openssl, readline, zlib"
 TERMUX_PKG_RECOMMENDS="clang, make, pkg-config"
 TERMUX_PKG_SUGGESTS="python-tkinter"
 TERMUX_PKG_BREAKS="python2 (<= 2.7.15), python-dev"
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS="ac_cv_file__dev_ptmx=yes ac_cv_file__dev_ptc=no
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" ac_cv_func_ftime=no"
 # Avoid trying to use AT_EACCESS which is not defined:
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" ac_cv_func_faccessat=no"
-TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" --build=$TERMUX_BUILD_TUPLE --with-system-ffi --without-ensurepip"
+TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" --build=$TERMUX_BUILD_TUPLE --with-system-ffi --with-system-expat --without-ensurepip"
 # Hard links does not work on Android 6:
 TERMUX_PKG_EXTRA_CONFIGURE_ARGS+=" ac_cv_func_linkat=no"
 # Posix semaphores are not supported on Android: