diff --git a/srcpkgs/hunspell/template b/srcpkgs/hunspell/template
index 929f4b1893e..7f8a27cf54a 100644
--- a/srcpkgs/hunspell/template
+++ b/srcpkgs/hunspell/template
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ version=1.7.0
 revision=3
 build_style=gnu-configure
 configure_args="--with-ui"
-hostmakedepends="automake bison libtool pkg-config"
+hostmakedepends="automake bison libtool pkg-config gettext-devel-tools"
 makedepends="ncurses-devel"
 short_desc="Spell checker and morphological analyzer"
 maintainer="Orphaned <orphan@voidlinux.org>"