diff --git a/Android.mk b/Android.mk
index 183c79cc..da06b9a6 100644
--- a/Android.mk
+++ b/Android.mk
@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@ ifeq ($(HAVE_SELINUX), true)
   #LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES += libselinux
   #LOCAL_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_SELINUX -g
 endif # HAVE_SELINUX
+ifneq ($(wildcard external/libselinux/Android.mk),)
+    LOCAL_C_INCLUDES += external/libselinux/include
+    LOCAL_STATIC_LIBRARIES += libselinux
+    LOCAL_CFLAGS += -DHAVE_SELINUX -g
+endif
 
 # This binary is in the recovery ramdisk, which is otherwise a copy of root.
 # It gets copied there in config/Makefile.  LOCAL_MODULE_TAGS suppresses
diff --git a/prebuilt/Android.mk b/prebuilt/Android.mk
index c152527c..e31ec8e3 100644
--- a/prebuilt/Android.mk
+++ b/prebuilt/Android.mk
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ RELINK_SOURCE_FILES += $(TARGET_OUT_SHARED_LIBRARIES)/libstlport.so
 RELINK_SOURCE_FILES += $(TARGET_OUT_SHARED_LIBRARIES)/libext4_utils.so
 RELINK_SOURCE_FILES += $(TARGET_OUT_SHARED_LIBRARIES)/libaosprecovery.so
 RELINK_SOURCE_FILES += $(TARGET_OUT_SHARED_LIBRARIES)/libjpeg.so
+ifneq ($(wildcard external/libselinux/Android.mk),)
+    RELINK_SOURCE_FILES += $(TARGET_OUT_SHARED_LIBRARIES)/libselinux.so
+endif
 ifeq ($(BUILD_ID), GINGERBREAD)
     TW_NO_EXFAT := true
 endif