diff --git a/srcpkgs/xz/template b/srcpkgs/xz/template
index 39c07804380..a36c5835fa6 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/xz/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/xz/template
@@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ long_desc="
   * A few shell scripts make diffing and grepping LZMA compressed
     files easy. The scripts were adapted from gzip and bzip2."
 
+bootstrap=yes
 subpackages="liblzma liblzma-devel"
 
 Add_dependency run glibc