--- a/src/auto/configure
+++ b/src/auto/configure
@@ -845,6 +845,7 @@ Optional Features:
   --disable-FEATURE       do not include FEATURE (same as --enable-FEATURE=no)
   --enable-FEATURE[=ARG]  include FEATURE [ARG=yes]
   --disable-darwin        Disable Darwin (Mac OS X) support.
+  --disable-selinux	  Don't check for SELinux support.
   --disable-xsmp          Disable XSMP session management
   --disable-xsmp-interact Disable XSMP interaction
   --enable-mzschemeinterp   Include MzScheme interpreter.
@@ -3611,6 +3612,94 @@ echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6
 esac
 fi
 
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking --disable-selinux argument" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking --disable-selinux argument... $ECHO_C" >&6
+# Check whether --enable-selinux or --disable-selinux was given.
+if test "${enable_selinux+set}" = set; then
+  enableval="$enable_selinux"
+
+else
+  enable_selinux="yes"
+fi;
+if test "$enable_selinux" = "yes"; then
+  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: no" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}no" >&6
+  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking for is_selinux_enabled in -lselinux" >&5
+echo $ECHO_N "checking for is_selinux_enabled in -lselinux... $ECHO_C" >&6
+if test "${ac_cv_lib_selinux_is_selinux_enabled+set}" = set; then
+  echo $ECHO_N "(cached) $ECHO_C" >&6
+else
+  ac_check_lib_save_LIBS=$LIBS
+LIBS="-lselinux  $LIBS"
+cat >conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* confdefs.h.  */
+_ACEOF
+cat confdefs.h >>conftest.$ac_ext
+cat >>conftest.$ac_ext <<_ACEOF
+/* end confdefs.h.  */
+
+/* Override any gcc2 internal prototype to avoid an error.  */
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C"
+#endif
+/* We use char because int might match the return type of a gcc2
+   builtin and then its argument prototype would still apply.  */
+char is_selinux_enabled ();
+int
+main ()
+{
+is_selinux_enabled ();
+  ;
+  return 0;
+}
+_ACEOF
+rm -f conftest.$ac_objext conftest$ac_exeext
+if { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_link\"") >&5
+  (eval $ac_link) 2>conftest.er1
+  ac_status=$?
+  grep -v '^ *+' conftest.er1 >conftest.err
+  rm -f conftest.er1
+  cat conftest.err >&5
+  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+  (exit $ac_status); } &&
+	 { ac_try='test -z "$ac_c_werror_flag"
+			 || test ! -s conftest.err'
+  { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_try\"") >&5
+  (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
+  ac_status=$?
+  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+  (exit $ac_status); }; } &&
+	 { ac_try='test -s conftest$ac_exeext'
+  { (eval echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \"$ac_try\"") >&5
+  (eval $ac_try) 2>&5
+  ac_status=$?
+  echo "$as_me:$LINENO: \$? = $ac_status" >&5
+  (exit $ac_status); }; }; then
+  ac_cv_lib_selinux_is_selinux_enabled=yes
+else
+  echo "$as_me: failed program was:" >&5
+sed 's/^/| /' conftest.$ac_ext >&5
+
+ac_cv_lib_selinux_is_selinux_enabled=no
+fi
+rm -f conftest.err conftest.$ac_objext \
+      conftest$ac_exeext conftest.$ac_ext
+LIBS=$ac_check_lib_save_LIBS
+fi
+echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: $ac_cv_lib_selinux_is_selinux_enabled" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}$ac_cv_lib_selinux_is_selinux_enabled" >&6
+if test $ac_cv_lib_selinux_is_selinux_enabled = yes; then
+  LIBS="$LIBS -lselinux"
+	   cat >>confdefs.h <<\_ACEOF
+#define HAVE_SELINUX 1
+_ACEOF
+
+fi
+
+else
+   echo "$as_me:$LINENO: result: yes" >&5
+echo "${ECHO_T}yes" >&6
+fi
 
 
 echo "$as_me:$LINENO: checking --with-features argument" >&5