diff --git a/Mesa.changes b/Mesa.changes
index 040ee96..2ae40b1 100644
--- a/Mesa.changes
+++ b/Mesa.changes
@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@
 Mon Jan  8 07:55:49 UTC 2018 - msrb@suse.com
 
 - Add Mesa-dri and Mesa-gallium to baselibs.conf.
+- Require llvm >= 3.9.0
+  * The build fails otherwise because it is required for multiple
+    Mesa components.
 
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 Wed Dec 13 15:13:14 UTC 2017 - msrb@suse.com
diff --git a/Mesa.spec b/Mesa.spec
index 157aea1..7dbf75e 100644
--- a/Mesa.spec
+++ b/Mesa.spec
@@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(wayland-protocols) >= 1.8
 BuildRequires:  pkgconfig(wayland-server) >= 1.11
 %endif
 %if 0%{with_llvm}
-BuildRequires:  llvm-devel
+BuildRequires:  llvm-devel >= 3.9.0
 %endif
 %ifarch aarch64 %arm ppc64 ppc64le s390x %ix86 x86_64
 BuildRequires:  ncurses-devel