diff --git a/srcpkgs/libvirt/template b/srcpkgs/libvirt/template
index ee0aef03d18..51c27d51225 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libvirt/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libvirt/template
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ license="LGPL-2.1"
 distfiles="http://libvirt.org/sources/$pkgname-$version.tar.gz"
 checksum=9b8c2752f78658b65ef1c608b3775be0978d60855a9b5e2778f79c113201c179
 
-makedepends="pkg-config readline-devel libcap-ng-devel libnl3-devel
+makedepends="perl pkg-config readline-devel libcap-ng-devel libnl3-devel
  gnutls-devel>=3.1.5 libsasl-devel libcurl-devel libpcap-devel libxml2-devel
  libparted-devel device-mapper-devel dbus-devel libudev-devel>=183
  libpciaccess-devel avahi-libs-devel polkit-devel yajl-devel