diff --git a/libguestfs.changes b/libguestfs.changes
index 1ab70ff..18beb7c 100644
--- a/libguestfs.changes
+++ b/libguestfs.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Sun Feb 24 18:11:07 CET 2013 - ohering@suse.de
+
+- BuildRequire: perl-macros only in sles11 builds to fix build in 11.4
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Fri Jan 18 14:28:46 CET 2013 - ohering@suse.de
 
diff --git a/libguestfs.spec b/libguestfs.spec
index 689d226..743d2ff 100644
--- a/libguestfs.spec
+++ b/libguestfs.spec
@@ -96,7 +96,9 @@ BuildRequires:  libconfig-devel
 BuildRequires:  libtool
 BuildRequires:  libvirt-devel >= 0.10.2
 BuildRequires:  ncurses-devel
+%if %suse_version < 1140
 BuildRequires:  perl-macros
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  pcre-devel
 BuildRequires:  pkg-config
 BuildRequires:  readline-devel