diff --git a/libpeas.spec b/libpeas.spec
index 643c95b..f962368 100644
--- a/libpeas.spec
+++ b/libpeas.spec
@@ -12,16 +12,20 @@
 
 Name:           libpeas
 Version:        1.22.0
-Release:        10%{?dist}
+Release:        11%{?dist}
 Summary:        Plug-ins implementation convenience library
 
 License:        LGPLv2+
 URL:            https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Libpeas
 Source0:        https://download.gnome.org/sources/%{name}/1.22/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 
+# Upstream issue: https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libpeas/issues/28
+Patch0: python3.8-fix.patch
+
 BuildRequires:  chrpath
 BuildRequires:  gcc
 BuildRequires:  intltool
+BuildRequires:  gnome-common
 BuildRequires:  make
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gio-2.0)
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(gladeui-2.0)
@@ -71,7 +75,8 @@ This package contains development libraries and header files
 that are needed to write applications that use libpeas.
 
 %prep
-%autosetup
+%autosetup -p1
+autoreconf -fi
 
 %build
 %configure --disable-silent-rules
@@ -131,6 +136,9 @@ chrpath --delete $RPM_BUILD_ROOT%{_libdir}/peas-demo/plugins/secondtime/libsecon
 %{_datadir}/glade/catalogs/libpeas-gtk.xml
 
 %changelog
+* Fri May 31 2019 Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak@redhat.com> - 1.22.0-11
+- Fix FTBFS with Python 3.8 (#1715665)
+
 * Fri Feb 01 2019 Fedora Release Engineering <releng@fedoraproject.org> - 1.22.0-10
 - Rebuilt for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_30_Mass_Rebuild
 
diff --git a/python3.8-fix.patch b/python3.8-fix.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..91dd0dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/python3.8-fix.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+diff --git a/configure.ac b/configure.ac
+index bd561e2..45ac643 100644
+--- a/configure.ac
++++ b/configure.ac
+@@ -442,7 +442,7 @@ else
+                 found_python3=yes
+                 PYTHON3_BIN="$PYTHON"
+                 PYTHON3_CFLAGS=`${PYTHON3_CONFIG} --includes`
+-                PYTHON3_LIBS=`${PYTHON3_CONFIG} --libs`
++                PYTHON3_LIBS=`${PYTHON3_CONFIG} --libs --embed` || PYTHON3_LIBS=`${PYTHON3_CONFIG} --libs`
+                 PYTHON3_LDFLAGS=`${PYTHON3_CONFIG} --ldflags`
+                 AC_SUBST(PYTHON3_BIN)
+                 AC_SUBST(PYTHON3_CFLAGS)