diff --git a/libcutils/Android.bp b/libcutils/Android.bp
index 85258cdda..8528a4bd1 100644
--- a/libcutils/Android.bp
+++ b/libcutils/Android.bp
@@ -150,6 +150,7 @@ cc_library {
         "libutils_headers",
     ],
     export_header_lib_headers: ["libcutils_headers"],
+    local_include_dirs: ["include"],
 
     cflags: [
         "-Werror",
diff --git a/libcutils/include_vndk/private b/libcutils/include_vndk/private
deleted file mode 120000
index 2245a855e..000000000
--- a/libcutils/include_vndk/private
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../include/private
\ No newline at end of file