diff --git a/extra/libinput/build b/extra/libinput/build
index 4b65ad8b..71f702f4 100755
--- a/extra/libinput/build
+++ b/extra/libinput/build
@@ -6,9 +6,7 @@ export DESTDIR="$1"
 
 # Meson build has no support for automatically using
 # udev if available. This simply does the same.
-kiss l eudev >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
-kiss l libudev-zero >/dev/null 2>&1 ||
-    udev=false
+pkg-config --exists libudev || udev=false
 
 meson \
     --prefix=/usr \