diff --git a/srcpkgs/mairix/template b/srcpkgs/mairix/template
index 15ff55e1a87..5fadbba06e1 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/mairix/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/mairix/template
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@ version=0.23
 revision=3
 build_style=configure
 configure_args="--prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man"
-makedepends="flex bison bzip2-devel zlib-devel"
+hostmakedepends="flex bison"
+makedepends="bzip2-devel zlib-devel"
 short_desc="A program for indexing and searching emails"
 maintainer="Christian Neukirchen <chneukirchen@gmail.com>"
 license="GPL-2"