diff --git a/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk b/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
index a6801a006d..50512c0b3a 100644
--- a/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
+++ b/package/asterisk/asterisk.mk
@@ -294,12 +294,23 @@ HOST_ASTERISK_CONF_OPTS = \
 	--without-curses \
 	--with-ncurses=$(HOST_DIR)/usr
 
-# Even though menuselect is an autotools package, it is *not* installed,
-# as asterisk does expect it to be in a sub-directory of its source tree,
-# which do by copying the full menuselect build tree as a pre-configure
-# hook in the target variant.
+# Not an automake package, so does not inherit LDFLAGS et al. from
+# the configure run.
+HOST_ASTERISK_MAKE_ENV = $(HOST_CONFIGURE_OPTS)
+
+# Even though menuselect is an autotools package, it is not an automake
+# package and does not have an 'install' rule, as asterisk does expect
+# it to be in a sub-directory of its source tree. We do so by copying
+# the full menuselect build tree as a pre-configure hook in the target
+# variant.
+# However, the sanity checks on host packages are not run on menuselect.
+# But we still want to catch that menuselect has the proper rpath set,
+# for example, as it uses host libraries that we do build, like
+# host-libxml2.
+# So we do manually install the menuselect tool.
 define HOST_ASTERISK_INSTALL_CMDS
-	@:
+	$(INSTALL) -D -m 0755 $(@D)/menuselect/menuselect \
+		$(HOST_DIR)/bin/asterisk-menuselect
 endef
 
 $(eval $(host-autotools-package))