diff --git a/perl-libintl-perl.changes b/perl-libintl-perl.changes
index dbe99da..b6c41f2 100644
--- a/perl-libintl-perl.changes
+++ b/perl-libintl-perl.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Tue Oct 19 08:38:43 UTC 2010 - coolo@novell.com
+
+- add perl as explicit buildrequire
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Tue Dec  8 10:38:15 CET 2009 - jengelh@medozas.de
 
diff --git a/perl-libintl-perl.spec b/perl-libintl-perl.spec
index 77fb991..d1a3719 100644
--- a/perl-libintl-perl.spec
+++ b/perl-libintl-perl.spec
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ Release:        2
 Source:         libintl-perl-%{version}.tar.bz2
 Source1:        libintl-perl-rpmlintrc
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
+BuildRequires:  perl
 
 %description
 This is an internationalization library for Perl that aims to be