diff --git a/doxygen-rc.patch b/doxygen-rc.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..89a9518
--- /dev/null
+++ b/doxygen-rc.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+diff -up doxygen-1.8.12/addon/doxywizard/doxywizard.rc doxygen-1.8.12/addon/doxywizard/doxywizard
+diff -up doxygen-1.8.12/doc/translator.py.rc doxygen-1.8.12/doc/translator.py
+--- doxygen-1.8.12/doc/translator.py.rc	2016-05-10 13:51:51.000000000 -0600
++++ doxygen-1.8.12/doc/translator.py	2016-12-21 22:34:41.007132208 -0700
+@@ -83,7 +83,7 @@ def xopen(fname, mode='r', encoding='utf
+     the default 'utf-8-sig' is used (skips the BOM automatically).
+     '''
+ 
+-    major, minor, patch = (int(e) for e in platform.python_version_tuple())
++    major, minor, patch = (int(re.sub('[a-z].*','',e)) for e in platform.python_version_tuple())
+     if major == 2:
+         return open(fname, mode=mode) # Python 2 without encoding
+     else:
+@@ -1990,7 +1990,7 @@ class TrManager:
+ if __name__ == '__main__':
+ 
+     # The Python 2.6+ or 3.3+ is required.
+-    major, minor, patch = (int(e) for e in platform.python_version_tuple())
++    major, minor, patch = (int(re.sub('[a-z].*','',e)) for e in platform.python_version_tuple())
+     if (major == 2 and minor < 6) or (major == 3 and minor < 0):
+         print('Python 2.6+ or Python 3.0+ are required for the script')
+         sys.exit(1)
diff --git a/doxygen.spec b/doxygen.spec
index 802c30b..8557c44 100644
--- a/doxygen.spec
+++ b/doxygen.spec
@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ Patch5: doxygen-707266.patch
 Patch6: doxygen-774949.patch
 Patch7: doxygen-775245.patch
 
+# Build with python rc
+Patch10: doxygen-rc.patch
+
 BuildRequires: perl
 BuildRequires: tex(dvips)
 BuildRequires: tex(latex)
@@ -141,6 +144,7 @@ desktop-file-install --dir=%{buildroot}%{_datadir}/applications %{SOURCE2}
 %changelog
 * Thu Dec 22 2016 Orion Poplawski <orion@cora.nwra.com> - 1:1.8.12-7
 - Rebuild for xapian soname bump
+- Add patch to build with python rc
 
 * Mon Dec 12 2016 Than Ngo <than@redhat.com> - 1:1.8.12-6
 - backport upstream patch to fix