diff --git a/irqbalance.changes b/irqbalance.changes
index 17f01c6..69c23f0 100644
--- a/irqbalance.changes
+++ b/irqbalance.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sat Oct 15 04:47:08 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- add libtool as buildrequire to make the spec file more reliable
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Aug 16 08:40:22 UTC 2011 - saschpe@suse.de
 
diff --git a/irqbalance.spec b/irqbalance.spec
index d92da08..7c99e9b 100644
--- a/irqbalance.spec
+++ b/irqbalance.spec
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Source3:        sysconfig.irqbalance
 Source4:        irqbalance.service
 # xorg-x11-util-devel is for gccmakedep
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(glib-2.0)
+BuildRequires:  libtool
 PreReq:         coreutils
 PreReq:         fillup
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build