diff --git a/srcpkgs/bcc/template b/srcpkgs/bcc/template
index 579d276874a..9e62cdfffc1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/bcc/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/bcc/template
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ revision=2
 build_style=cmake
 configure_args="-DREVISION=${version} -DENABLE_LLVM_SHARED=1"
 hostmakedepends="flex python3-setuptools"
-makedepends="clang clang-tools-extra elfutils-devel flex lld-devel llvm17-devel
+_llvmver=17
+makedepends="clang${_llvmver} clang-tools-extra${_llvmver} elfutils-devel flex lld${_llvmver}-devel llvm${_llvmver}-devel
  ncurses-devel python3-devel zlib-devel"
 short_desc="BPF-based Linux IO analysis, networking, monitoring, and more"
 maintainer="Leah Neukirchen <leah@vuxu.org>"