diff --git a/community/nodejs/PKGBUILD b/community/nodejs/PKGBUILD
index a76654569..68280e752 100644
--- a/community/nodejs/PKGBUILD
+++ b/community/nodejs/PKGBUILD
@@ -38,8 +38,8 @@ build() {
 # we're going to attept to make use of this example
 # https://github.com/joyent/node/issues/2131#issuecomment-3208846
 # https://gist.github.com/1574158   
-   # cheating
-   ln -s /usr/bin/python2 /usr/bin/python
+   # pathing scons
+   sed -i "s/python/&2/" tools/scons/scons.py
    msg 'Selecting pre-compile of v8'
    # move up to v8
    cd deps/v8
@@ -54,7 +54,7 @@ if [ "$CARCH" == "arm" ]; then
 fi
 if [ "$CARCH" == "armv7h" ]; then
    msg 'pre-compiling v8 for v7'
-   ../../tools/scons/scons.py arch=arm armeabi=hard mode=release snapshot=off
+   ../../tools/scons/scons.py arch=arm armeabi=hard mode=release snapshot=off vfp3=on
 fi
   # go back to the node source directory
   cd ../../