diff --git a/perl-PadWalker.changes b/perl-PadWalker.changes
index 6ba068e..7128925 100644
--- a/perl-PadWalker.changes
+++ b/perl-PadWalker.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 19 08:38:54 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- add perl as explicit buildrequire
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Aug  4 20:53:23 UTC 2010 - rschweikert@novell.com
 
diff --git a/perl-PadWalker.spec b/perl-PadWalker.spec
index 960383d..169fe11 100644
--- a/perl-PadWalker.spec
+++ b/perl-PadWalker.spec
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ URL:           http://search.cpan.org/~robin/PadWalker-1.9/PadWalker.pm
 Summary:       Play with other peoples' lexical variables
 Source0:       %{cpan_name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
+BuildRequires:  perl
 
 %description
 PadWalker is a module which allows you to inspect (and even change!)