diff --git a/lib/util/wscript_build b/lib/util/wscript_build
index fe2c183..cb55f95 100755
--- a/lib/util/wscript_build
+++ b/lib/util/wscript_build
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ bld.SAMBA_LIBRARY('samba-util',
                     server_id.c dprintf.c parmlist.c bitmap.c pidfile.c
                     tevent_debug.c util_process.c''',
                   deps='DYNCONFIG',
-                  public_deps='talloc tevent execinfo pthread LIBCRYPTO charset util_setid systemd-daemon',
+                  public_deps='talloc tevent execinfo pthread LIBCRYPTO charset util_setid systemd',
                   public_headers='debug.h attr.h byteorder.h data_blob.h memory.h safe_string.h time.h talloc_stack.h xfile.h dlinklist.h samba_util.h string_wrappers.h',
                   header_path= [ ('dlinklist.h samba_util.h', '.'), ('*', 'util') ],
                   local_include=False,
diff --git a/wscript b/wscript
index cf4e93b..13072fc 100644
--- a/wscript
+++ b/wscript
@@ -202,10 +202,11 @@ def configure(conf):
         conf.check_cfg(package='libsystemd-daemon', args='--cflags --libs',
                        msg='Checking for libsystemd-daemon', uselib_store="SYSTEMD-DAEMON")
         conf.CHECK_HEADERS('systemd/sd-daemon.h', lib='systemd-daemon')
-        conf.CHECK_LIB('systemd-daemon', shlib=True)
+        conf.CHECK_LIB('systemd-daemon systemd', shlib=True)
 
     if (conf.CONFIG_SET('HAVE_SYSTEMD_SD_DAEMON_H') and
-        conf.CONFIG_SET('HAVE_LIBSYSTEMD_DAEMON')):
+        (conf.CONFIG_SET('HAVE_LIBSYSTEMD_DAEMON') or
+         conf.CONFIG_SET('HAVE_LIBSYSTEMD'))):
         conf.DEFINE('HAVE_SYSTEMD', '1')
         conf.env['ENABLE_SYSTEMD'] = True
     else: