diff --git a/srcpkgs/libarchive/template b/srcpkgs/libarchive/template
index 1d3df525076..2dcc461e57f 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/libarchive/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/libarchive/template
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ distfiles="https://github.com/downloads/libarchive/libarchive/libarchive-$versio
 checksum=76e8d7c7b100ec4071e48c1b7d3f3ea1d22b39db3e45b7189f75b5ff4df90fac
 
 if [ -n "${XBPS_CROSS_TRIPLET}" ]; then
-	makedepends="automake"
+	makedepends="automake perl"
 fi
 crossmakedepends="zlib-devel bzip2-devel acl-devel openssl-devel liblzma-devel expat-devel"