diff --git a/cmake/FindPython.cmake b/cmake/FindPython.cmake
index 819bfb05..54febfb2 100644
--- a/cmake/FindPython.cmake
+++ b/cmake/FindPython.cmake
@@ -104,13 +104,14 @@ mark_as_advanced(PYTHON_SITE_PKG)
  #EXEC_PYTHON_SCRIPT ("import string; from distutils.sysconfig import * ;print string.join(get_config_vars('VERSION'))"  PYTHON_VERSION_MAJOR_MINOR)         
  EXEC_PYTHON_SCRIPT ("import string; from distutils.sysconfig import *; print '%s/config' % get_python_lib(0,1)" PYTHON_LIBRARY_BASE_PATH)
  EXEC_PYTHON_SCRIPT ("import string; from distutils.sysconfig import *; print 'libpython%s' % string.join(get_config_vars('VERSION'))" PYTHON_LIBRARY_BASE_FILE)
+ set( PYTHON_LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATH ${PYTHON_LIBRARY_BASE_PATH} /usr/lib/python2.7/config-x86_64-linux-gnu/)
  IF(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
-  FIND_FILE(PYTHON_LIBRARY NAMES "${PYTHON_LIBRARY_BASE_FILE}.so" PATHS ${PYTHON_LIBRARY_BASE_PATH})
+  FIND_FILE(PYTHON_LIBRARY NAMES "${PYTHON_LIBRARY_BASE_FILE}.so" PATHS ${PYTHON_LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATH})
   IF(NOT PYTHON_LIBRARY)
-   FIND_FILE(PYTHON_LIBRARY NAMES "${PYTHON_LIBRARY_BASE_FILE}.a" PATHS ${PYTHON_LIBRARY_BASE_PATH})
+   FIND_FILE(PYTHON_LIBRARY NAMES "${PYTHON_LIBRARY_BASE_FILE}.a" PATHS ${PYTHON_LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATH})
   ENDIF(NOT PYTHON_LIBRARY)
  ELSE(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
-  FIND_FILE(PYTHON_LIBRARY NAMES "${PYTHON_LIBRARY_BASE_FILE}.a" PATHS ${PYTHON_LIBRARY_BASE_PATH})
+  FIND_FILE(PYTHON_LIBRARY NAMES "${PYTHON_LIBRARY_BASE_FILE}.a" PATHS ${PYTHON_LIBRARY_SEARCH_PATH})
  ENDIF(BUILD_SHARED_LIBS)
  MESSAGE(STATUS "PYTHON_LIBRARY = ${PYTHON_LIBRARY}" )
  mark_as_advanced(PYTHON_LIBRARY)