diff --git a/libplist.spec b/libplist.spec
index 272e481..e6f2514 100644
--- a/libplist.spec
+++ b/libplist.spec
@@ -2,13 +2,17 @@
 
 Name:     libplist
 Version:  2.0.0
-Release:  12%{?dist}
+Release:  13%{?dist}
 Summary:  Library for manipulating Apple Binary and XML Property Lists
 
 License:  LGPLv2+
 URL:      http://www.libimobiledevice.org/
 Source0:  http://www.libimobiledevice.org/downloads/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 
+# Add Python 3.8 compatibility
+# Reported upstream: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/libplist/issues/137
+Patch0:   python38-compat.patch
+
 BuildRequires: chrpath
 BuildRequires: gcc gcc-c++
 BuildRequires: python3-Cython
@@ -46,6 +50,9 @@ Requires: python3
 
 %prep
 %setup -q
+
+%patch0 -p1
+
 ACLOCAL="aclocal -I m4" autoreconf -f -i
 
 %build
@@ -88,6 +95,9 @@ make check
 %{python3_sitearch}/plist*
 
 %changelog
+* Sun Jun 09 2019 Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com> - 2.0.0-13
+- Add Python 3.8 compatibility
+
 * Fri Feb 01 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 2.0.0-12
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/python38-compat.patch b/python38-compat.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..fee8350
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python38-compat.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/m4/ac_python_devel.m4 b/m4/ac_python_devel.m4
+index 545c607..cbeda8a 100644
+--- a/m4/ac_python_devel.m4
++++ b/m4/ac_python_devel.m4
+@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ $ac_distutils_result])
+ 	#
+ 	AC_MSG_CHECKING([for Python library path])
+ 	if type $PYTHON-config; then
+-		PYTHON_LDFLAGS=`$PYTHON-config --ldflags`
++		PYTHON_LDFLAGS=`$PYTHON-config --libs --embed` || PYTHON_LDFLAGS=`$PYTHON-config --libs`
+ 	fi
+ 	if test -z "$PYTHON_LDFLAGS"; then
+ 		# (makes two attempts to ensure we've got a version number