diff --git a/alpine.changes b/alpine.changes
index 8cd386c..4e8bf01 100644
--- a/alpine.changes
+++ b/alpine.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Sep 30 20:07:39 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- add libtool as buildrequire to make the spec file more reliable
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Sep 17 10:55:07 UTC 2011 - jengelh@medozas.de
 
diff --git a/alpine.spec b/alpine.spec
index 34d521b..5821945 100644
--- a/alpine.spec
+++ b/alpine.spec
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@ Name:           alpine
 Summary:        Alpine mail user agent (formerly pine)
 BuildRequires:  imap-devel krb5-devel libgssapi ncurses-devel
 BuildRequires:  openldap2-devel openssl-devel pam-devel update-desktop-files
+BuildRequires:  libtool
 %if %{use_mudflap}
 BuildRequires:  libmudflap
 %endif