diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index f6b6412e8..d029fdfda 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2012-08-14  Jean Raby  <jraby@inverse.ca>
+
+	* OpenChange/GNUmakefile: use version_info[{0,1}] instead of
+	version_info.{major,minor} when checking for legacy version
+	of python since these named attributes where added in python2.7
+
 2012-08-13  Wolfgang Sourdeau  <wsourdeau@inverse.ca>
 
 	* OpenChange/MAPIStoreSOGo.m (sogo_properties_get_uri): removed
diff --git a/OpenChange/GNUmakefile b/OpenChange/GNUmakefile
index 0db45e325..1174670b2 100644
--- a/OpenChange/GNUmakefile
+++ b/OpenChange/GNUmakefile
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ BUNDLE_INSTALL_DIR = $(SOGO_LIBDIR)
 UNRTF_DIR = unrtf-$(UNRTF_VERSION)
 
 PYTHON = /usr/bin/python
-PYTHON_IS_GOOD = $(shell $(PYTHON) -c 'from sys import version_info; a=version_info; print a.major == 2 and a.minor >= 6')
+PYTHON_IS_GOOD = $(shell $(PYTHON) -c 'from sys import version_info; a=version_info; print a[0] == 2 and a[1] >= 6')
 ifeq (${PYTHON_IS_GOOD},False)
 PYTHON = /usr/bin/python2.6
 endif