diff --git a/srcpkgs/dmtx-utils/template b/srcpkgs/dmtx-utils/template
index 047ce9f7d85..a7efb206958 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/dmtx-utils/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/dmtx-utils/template
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version=0.7.4
 revision=2
 build_style=gnu-configure
 maintainer="Dominik Honnef <dominik@honnef.co>"
-hostmakedepends="libtool pkg-config"
+hostmakedepends="automake libtool pkg-config"
 makedepends="libdmtx-devel>=0.7.4_2 libmagick-devel"
 license="GPL-2"
 homepage="http://www.libdmtx.org/"