diff --git a/gc.changes b/gc.changes
index cf42a61..723938e 100644
--- a/gc.changes
+++ b/gc.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Jan  8 13:51:13 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
+
+- Add libatomic_ops-devel as a package require, since it shows up
+  in bdw-gc.pc.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Jan  8 02:37:16 UTC 2019 - Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de>
 
diff --git a/gc.spec b/gc.spec
index db6f251..1974511 100644
--- a/gc.spec
+++ b/gc.spec
@@ -62,6 +62,7 @@ Summary:        A garbage collector for C and C++
 Group:          Development/Libraries/C and C++
 Provides:       gc:/usr/include/gc/gc.h
 Requires:       glibc-devel
+Requires:       libatomic_ops-devel
 Requires:       libgc1 = %version
 
 %description devel