diff --git a/cpanspec.yml b/cpanspec.yml
index 76ad4a4..34acfeb 100644
--- a/cpanspec.yml
+++ b/cpanspec.yml
@@ -10,8 +10,10 @@
 #patches:
 #  foo.patch: -p1
 #  bar.patch:
-#preamble: |-
-# BuildRequires:  gcc-c++
+preamble: |-
+ %if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1530
+ BuildRequires:  perl(PkgConfig)
+ %endif
 #post_prep: |-
 # hunspell=`pkg-config --libs hunspell | sed -e 's,-l,,; s,  *,,g'`
 # sed -i -e "s,hunspell-X,$hunspell," t/00-prereq.t Makefile.PL 
diff --git a/perl-Alien-Base-ModuleBuild.changes b/perl-Alien-Base-ModuleBuild.changes
index 232c98f..78bc8e4 100644
--- a/perl-Alien-Base-ModuleBuild.changes
+++ b/perl-Alien-Base-ModuleBuild.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Apr 13 20:39:25 UTC 2021 - Lars Vogdt <lars@linux-schulserver.de>
+
+- needs perl(PkgConfig) to build on older distributions
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Aug 29 03:07:00 UTC 2020 - Tina Müller <timueller+perl@suse.de>
 
diff --git a/perl-Alien-Base-ModuleBuild.spec b/perl-Alien-Base-ModuleBuild.spec
index 3124a89..0802d7a 100644
--- a/perl-Alien-Base-ModuleBuild.spec
+++ b/perl-Alien-Base-ModuleBuild.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package perl-Alien-Base-ModuleBuild
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2020 SUSE LLC
+# Copyright (c) 2021 SUSE LLC
 #
 # All modifications and additions to the file contributed by third parties
 # remain the property of their copyright owners, unless otherwise agreed
@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ BuildRequires:  perl(Text::ParseWords) >= 3.26
 BuildRequires:  perl(URI)
 BuildRequires:  perl(URI::file)
 BuildRequires:  perl(parent)
+%if 0%{?suse_version} <= 1530
+BuildRequires:  perl(PkgConfig)
+%endif
 Requires:       perl(Alien::Base)
 Requires:       perl(Alien::Base::PkgConfig) >= 1.20
 Requires:       perl(Archive::Extract)