diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 7b26beb88..8b3bc1af2 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 	Merge from trunk
 
 	* configure.in: Fix detection of struct statfs fields.
-	Accept lesser mmaps.
+	Accept lesser mmaps. 
+	Change libselinux detection to not link libglib against it.
 
 2008-08-31  Emmanuele Bassi  <ebassi@gnome.org>
 
diff --git a/configure.in b/configure.in
index 7f89aa723..1ba69844b 100644
--- a/configure.in
+++ b/configure.in
@@ -1505,7 +1505,7 @@ if test "x$enable_selinux" != "xno"; then
 
  AC_CHECK_LIB(selinux, is_selinux_enabled,
    [AC_CHECK_HEADERS(selinux/selinux.h,
-     [AC_SEARCH_LIBS(lgetfilecon_raw, selinux, 
+     [AC_CHECK_LIB(selinux, lgetfilecon_raw,
        [AC_DEFINE(HAVE_SELINUX, 1, [Define to 1 if libselinux is available])
         SELINUX_LIBS="-lselinux"
         msg_selinux=yes])