diff --git a/perl-Tie-IxHash.changes b/perl-Tie-IxHash.changes
index 0eb5b21..1fb7de7 100644
--- a/perl-Tie-IxHash.changes
+++ b/perl-Tie-IxHash.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 19 15:36:37 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- add perl as explicit buildrequire
+
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 Thu Mar  4 14:47:21 CET 2010 - anicka@suse.cz
 
diff --git a/perl-Tie-IxHash.spec b/perl-Tie-IxHash.spec
index 6268465..adb05bf 100644
--- a/perl-Tie-IxHash.spec
+++ b/perl-Tie-IxHash.spec
@@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ Version:        1.22
 Release:        1
 Source:         Tie-IxHash-%{version}.tar.bz2
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+BuildRequires:  perl
 
 %description
 If you have been led to believe that associative arrays in Perl do not