diff --git a/libvirt.changes b/libvirt.changes
index 18a4fae..8687282 100644
--- a/libvirt.changes
+++ b/libvirt.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jun 30 10:44:17 MDT 2011 - jfehlig@suse.de
+
+- Enable building libvirt with audit support
+  bnc#694891
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Mon Jun 13 14:50:32 CST 2011 - lidongyang@novell.com
 
diff --git a/libvirt.spec b/libvirt.spec
index e20e16b..df95fd6 100644
--- a/libvirt.spec
+++ b/libvirt.spec
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
 
 # norootforbuild
 
+# In the future, we may want a client only build, which will create a
+# libvirt.so only containing the generic RPC driver and the test driver,
+# but no libvirtd
 # For now, default to a full server + client build
 %define client_only        0
 
@@ -142,6 +145,9 @@
 %define with_yajl          0%{!?_without_yajl:%{server_drivers}}
 %endif
 
+# All supported version of openSUSE/SLE contain audit
+%define with_audit         0%{!?_without_audit:1}
+
 # Enable libpcap library
 %if %{with_qemu}
 %if 0%{?suse_version} >= 1140
@@ -271,6 +277,9 @@ BuildRequires:  parted-devel
 # For Multipath support
 BuildRequires:  device-mapper-devel
 %endif
+%if %{with_audit}
+BuildRequires:  audit-devel
+%endif
 
 Name:           libvirt
 Url:            http://libvirt.org/
@@ -436,7 +445,6 @@ Authors:
     Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
 
 %if %{with_python}
-
 %package python
 License:        LGPLv2.1+
 Summary:        A C toolkit to interract with the virtualization capabilities of Linux
@@ -548,6 +556,9 @@ Authors:
 %if ! %{with_polkit}
 %define _without_polkit --without-polkit
 %endif
+%if ! %{with_audit}
+%define _without_audit --without-audit
+%endif
 %if ! %{with_network}
 %define _without_network --without-network
 %endif
@@ -591,6 +602,7 @@ export CFLAGS="$RPM_OPT_FLAGS"
            %{?_without_yajl} \
            %{?_without_macvtap} \
            %{?_without_polkit} \
+           %{?_without_audit} \
            %{?_without_network} \
            %{?_without_sasl} \
            %{?_without_python} \
@@ -719,7 +731,6 @@ fi
 %postun client -p /sbin/ldconfig
 
 %if %{with_libvirtd}
-
 %files
 %defattr(-, root, root)
 %{_sbindir}/libvirtd
@@ -837,7 +848,6 @@ fi
 %doc %{_docdir}/%{name}/html
 
 %if %{with_python}
-
 %files python
 %defattr(-, root, root)
 %doc %{_docdir}/%{name}-python