diff --git a/srcpkgs/sssd/template b/srcpkgs/sssd/template
index 61ead1c9e44..60a47ac85c0 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/sssd/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/sssd/template
@@ -1,12 +1,15 @@
 # Template file for 'sssd'
 pkgname=sssd
 version=2.4.0
-revision=3
+revision=4
 build_style=gnu-configure
+# configure checks sys.version[:3] for Python versioning, so 3.10 becomes 3.1;
+# until this is fixed upstream, manually define am_cv_python_version to circumvent
 configure_args="--without-selinux --without-semanage --without-libwbclient
  --disable-cifs-idmap-plugin --without-samba --with-os=fedora
  --with-test-dir=/dev/shm --with-python3-bindings --with-pid-path=/run
- --with-sudo-lib-path=/usr/lib/sssd --without-python2-bindings"
+ --with-sudo-lib-path=/usr/lib/sssd --without-python2-bindings
+ am_cv_python_version=${py3_ver}"
 hostmakedepends="pkg-config nscd bind xmlcatmgr docbook-xsl"
 makedepends="pam-devel popt-devel talloc-devel tdb-devel tevent-devel ldb-devel
  ding-libs-devel libldap-devel mit-krb5-devel c-ares-devel glib-devel