diff --git a/src/lib.rs b/src/lib.rs
index 223f1af3..5e4d2ab2 100644
--- a/src/lib.rs
+++ b/src/lib.rs
@@ -107,7 +107,9 @@ impl Build {
             // stuff depends on, and we don't bind to any of that in any case.
             .arg("no-async");
 
-        if target.contains("musl") {
+        if !target.contains("x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu")
+            && !target.contains("aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu")
+        {
             // This actually fails to compile on musl (it needs linux/version.h
             // right now) but we don't actually need this most of the time.
             configure.arg("no-engine");