diff --git a/audit-secondary.spec b/audit-secondary.spec
index 3f2ce8e..63c3f38 100644
--- a/audit-secondary.spec
+++ b/audit-secondary.spec
@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ Requires:       audit = %{version}
 BuildRoot:      %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
 PreReq:         %insserv_prereq %fillup_prereq
 BuildRequires:  audit-devel = %{version}
+BuildRequires:  libtool
 
 %description
 The audit-libs-python package contains the bindings for using libaudit
diff --git a/audit.changes b/audit.changes
index 0b962cd..17c0002 100644
--- a/audit.changes
+++ b/audit.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Sep 30 20:07:43 UTC 2011 - coolo@suse.com
+
+- add libtool as buildrequire to make the spec file more reliable
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sat Sep 17 13:38:24 UTC 2011 - jengelh@medozas.de
 
diff --git a/audit.spec b/audit.spec
index c89a8cb..be3de51 100644
--- a/audit.spec
+++ b/audit.spec
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
 Name:           audit
 BuildRequires:  gcc-c++ tcpd-devel
 BuildRequires:  kernel-headers >= 2.6.29
+BuildRequires:  libtool
 Summary:        User Space Tools for 2.6 Kernel Auditing
 Version:        2.1.1
 Release:        11