diff --git a/0001-Fix-fedabipkgdiff-configure-check-for-Python-3.12.patch b/0001-Fix-fedabipkgdiff-configure-check-for-Python-3.12.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..4c2daa4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/0001-Fix-fedabipkgdiff-configure-check-for-Python-3.12.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,40 @@
+From 020f008cc58f9cb61baaa175ae1fcb6c4faca55b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi@redhat.com>
+Date: Fri, 7 Jul 2023 13:57:28 -0400
+Subject: [PATCH] Fix fedabipkgdiff configure check for Python 3.12
+
+importlib is the Python 3 replacement to imp, which was deprecated in
+Python 3.4 and removed in 3.12.
+
+	* configure.ac (REQUIRED_PYTHON_MODULES_FOR_FEDABIPKGDIFF):
+	Test for importlib.machinery instead of imp with python3.
+
+Signed-off-by: Yaakov Selkowitz <yselkowi@redhat.com>
+---
+ configure.ac | 4 +++-
+ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index b4e7e38e..b3f97ba2 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -739,13 +739,15 @@ if test x$CHECK_DEPS_FOR_FEDABIPKGDIFF = xyes; then
+   # urllib.parse.  Oh well.
+   if test x$PYTHON = xpython3; then
+      URLPARSE_MODULE=urllib.parse
++     IMPORT_MODULE=importlib.machinery
+   else
+      URLPARSE_MODULE=urlparse
++     IMPORT_MODULE=imp
+   fi
+ 
+   REQUIRED_PYTHON_MODULES_FOR_FEDABIPKGDIFF="\
+    argparse logging os re subprocess sys $URLPARSE_MODULE \
+-   xdg koji mock rpm imp tempfile mimetypes shutil six"
++   xdg koji mock rpm $IMPORT_MODULE tempfile mimetypes shutil six"
+ 
+   AX_CHECK_PYTHON_MODULES([$REQUIRED_PYTHON_MODULES_FOR_FEDABIPKGDIFF],
+ 			  [$PYTHON],
+-- 
+2.41.0
+
diff --git a/libabigail.spec b/libabigail.spec
index db6eb1c..8597570 100644
--- a/libabigail.spec
+++ b/libabigail.spec
@@ -9,6 +9,9 @@ Summary: Set of ABI analysis tools
 License: ASL 2.0
 URL: https://sourceware.org/libabigail/
 Source0: http://mirrors.kernel.org/sourceware/libabigail/%{tarball_name}.tar.xz
+# fix configure for removal of 'imp' in Python 3.12; code already fixed
+# https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libabigail/2023q3/005581.html
+Patch0: 0001-Fix-fedabipkgdiff-configure-check-for-Python-3.12.patch
 
 
 BuildRequires: binutils-devel
@@ -92,6 +95,7 @@ them manually.
 
 %prep
 %setup -n %{tarball_name}
+%patch -P 0 -p1
 
 %build
 %configure --enable-ctf --disable-silent-rules --disable-zip-archive --disable-static 
@@ -115,7 +119,7 @@ make -C doc/manuals install-man-and-info-doc DESTDIR=%{buildroot}
 
 %if 0%{?fedora}
 # Explicitly use Python 3 as the interpreter
-pathfix.py -i %{__python3} -pn %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/fedabipkgdiff
+%py3_shebang_fix %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/fedabipkgdiff
 %endif
 
 %check