diff --git a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/2.7/default.nix b/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/2.7/default.nix
index 31839d24754e..f1ae897ea4ac 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/2.7/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/interpreters/python/2.7/default.nix
@@ -143,7 +143,7 @@ let
 
         ${optionalString includeModules "$out/bin/python ./setup.py build_ext"}
 
-        ${optionalString stdenv.isLinux ''rm "$out"/lib/python*/plat-linux2/regen # refers to glibc.dev''}
+        rm "$out"/lib/python*/plat-*/regen # refers to glibc.dev
       '';
 
     passthru = rec {