diff --git a/BUILDING.md b/BUILDING.md
index dd8573bb23..07420a04b4 100644
--- a/BUILDING.md
+++ b/BUILDING.md
@@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ Next, let's build `runc`:
 
 ```sh
 cd /go/src/github.com/opencontainers/runc
-make BUILDTAGS='seccomp apparmor' && make install
+make BUILDTAGS='seccomp apparmor selinux' && make install
 ```
 
 When working with `ctr`, the simple test client we just built, don't forget to start the daemon!
diff --git a/script/setup/install-runc b/script/setup/install-runc
index b13e66f373..0218e711f4 100755
--- a/script/setup/install-runc
+++ b/script/setup/install-runc
@@ -26,5 +26,5 @@ RUNC_COMMIT=$(grep opencontainers/runc ${GOPATH}/src/github.com/containerd/conta
 go get -d github.com/opencontainers/runc
 cd $GOPATH/src/github.com/opencontainers/runc
 git checkout $RUNC_COMMIT
-make BUILDTAGS="apparmor seccomp" runc
+make BUILDTAGS="seccomp apparmor selinux" runc
 sudo make install