diff --git a/srcpkgs/qemu/template b/srcpkgs/qemu/template
index cf1bee84377..f79ba7036b2 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/qemu/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/qemu/template
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ license="GPL-2, LGPL-2.1"
 distfiles="http://wiki.qemu.org/download/qemu-${version}.tar.bz2"
 checksum=75063a9326221607de3599e89fb5af80f2d8080ddc55ca253fff113843432df1
 
-hostmakedepends="pkg-config perl python libtool"
+hostmakedepends="pkg-config perl python automake libtool"
 makedepends="attr-devel libpng-devel>=1.5.10 libjpeg-turbo-devel
  libuuid-devel libX11-devel alsa-lib-devel gnutls-devel>=3.1.5 SDL-devel
  libsasl-devel libglib-devel ncurses-devel libseccomp-devel nss-devel