diff --git a/Misc/ACKS b/Misc/ACKS
index 8a63f50f8fb..fc0e17da073 100644
--- a/Misc/ACKS
+++ b/Misc/ACKS
@@ -885,6 +885,7 @@ Paul Sokolovsky
 Cody Somerville
 Edoardo Spadolini
 Clay Spence
+Stefan Sperling
 Per Spilling
 Joshua Spoerri
 Noah Spurrier
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index a8910f49137..5d7f59f4ef4 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -237,6 +237,8 @@ Core and Builtins
 Library
 -------
 
+- Issue #12560: Build libpython.so on OpenBSD. Patch by Stefan Sperling.
+
 - Issue #1813: Fix codec lookup under Turkish locales.
 
 - Issue #12591: Improve support of "universal newlines" in the subprocess
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 0de752f7d6f..866ece79f80 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -5005,7 +5005,7 @@ $as_echo "#define Py_ENABLE_SHARED 1" >>confdefs.h
 	      PY3LIBRARY=libpython3.so
 	  fi
           ;;
-    Linux*|GNU*|NetBSD*|FreeBSD*|DragonFly*)
+    Linux*|GNU*|NetBSD*|FreeBSD*|DragonFly*|OpenBSD*)
 	  LDLIBRARY='libpython$(LDVERSION).so'
 	  BLDLIBRARY='-L. -lpython$(LDVERSION)'
 	  RUNSHARED=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index bf1298166ba..50e502b101f 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -769,7 +769,7 @@ if test $enable_shared = "yes"; then
 	      PY3LIBRARY=libpython3.so
 	  fi
           ;;
-    Linux*|GNU*|NetBSD*|FreeBSD*|DragonFly*)
+    Linux*|GNU*|NetBSD*|FreeBSD*|DragonFly*|OpenBSD*)
 	  LDLIBRARY='libpython$(LDVERSION).so'
 	  BLDLIBRARY='-L. -lpython$(LDVERSION)'
 	  RUNSHARED=LD_LIBRARY_PATH=`pwd`:${LD_LIBRARY_PATH}