diff --git a/package/eudev/Config.in b/package/eudev/Config.in
index 65cfc1d2de..5eefed71dc 100644
--- a/package/eudev/Config.in
+++ b/package/eudev/Config.in
@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_EUDEV
 	depends on BR2_USE_MMU # uses fork()
 	depends on BR2_USE_WCHAR # needs C99 compiler
 	depends on !BR2_STATIC_LIBS # dlfcn.h
+	select BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_LIBUDEV
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_HAS_UDEV
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_UDEV_GENTOO_SCRIPTS if BR2_INIT_OPENRC
 	select BR2_PACKAGE_UTIL_LINUX
@@ -19,6 +20,9 @@ config BR2_PACKAGE_EUDEV
 
 if BR2_PACKAGE_EUDEV
 
+config BR2_PACKAGE_PROVIDES_LIBUDEV
+	default "eudev"
+
 config BR2_PACKAGE_PROVIDES_UDEV
 	default "eudev"
 
diff --git a/package/eudev/eudev.mk b/package/eudev/eudev.mk
index 3c22b13d86..a060e8f0d8 100644
--- a/package/eudev/eudev.mk
+++ b/package/eudev/eudev.mk
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ EUDEV_CONF_OPTS = \
 
 # eudev requires only the util-linux libraries at build time
 EUDEV_DEPENDENCIES = host-gperf host-pkgconf util-linux-libs
-EUDEV_PROVIDES = udev
+EUDEV_PROVIDES = libudev udev
 
 ifeq ($(BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_USR),y)
 ifeq ($(BR2_ROOTFS_MERGED_BIN),y)