diff --git a/Makefile.pre.in b/Makefile.pre.in
index 886bd7ae1c504d..8ec3173a8847b1 100644
--- a/Makefile.pre.in
+++ b/Makefile.pre.in
@@ -2503,6 +2503,8 @@ maninstall:	altmaninstall
 XMLLIBSUBDIRS=  xml xml/dom xml/etree xml/parsers xml/sax
 LIBSUBDIRS=	asyncio \
 		collections \
+		compression compression/bz2 compression/gzip \
+		compression/lzma compression/zlib compression/_common \
 		concurrent concurrent/futures \
 		csv \
 		ctypes ctypes/macholib \