diff --git a/Android.mk b/Android.mk
index 183c79c..da06b9a 100644
--- a/Android.mk
+++ b/Android.mk
@@ -73,6 +73,11 @@
   #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