diff --git a/tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select/Makefile b/tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select/Makefile
index 8d3a02a20f3d..6b299aae2ded 100644
--- a/tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select/Makefile
+++ b/tools/power/x86/intel-speed-select/Makefile
@@ -13,7 +13,13 @@ endif
 # Do not use make's built-in rules
 # (this improves performance and avoids hard-to-debug behaviour);
 MAKEFLAGS += -r
-override CFLAGS += -O2 -Wall -g -D_GNU_SOURCE -I$(OUTPUT)include -I$(shell $(CC) -print-sysroot)/usr/include/libnl3
+
+NL3_CFLAGS = $(shell pkg-config --cflags libnl-3.0 2>/dev/null)
+ifeq ($(NL3_CFLAGS),)
+NL3_CFLAGS = -I/usr/include/libnl3
+endif
+
+override CFLAGS += -O2 -Wall -g -D_GNU_SOURCE -I$(OUTPUT)include $(NL3_CFLAGS)
 override LDFLAGS += -lnl-genl-3 -lnl-3
 
 ALL_TARGETS := intel-speed-select