diff --git a/packages/x11/lib/libfontenc/meta b/packages/x11/lib/libfontenc/meta
index 76ea2899f1..2a46572ac8 100644
--- a/packages/x11/lib/libfontenc/meta
+++ b/packages/x11/lib/libfontenc/meta
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ PKG_LICENSE="OSS"
 PKG_SITE="http://www.X.org"
 PKG_URL="http://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/individual/lib/$PKG_NAME-$PKG_VERSION.tar.bz2"
 PKG_DEPENDS=""
-PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain util-macros xproto zlib"
+PKG_BUILD_DEPENDS="toolchain util-macros xproto zlib font-util"
 PKG_PRIORITY="optional"
 PKG_SECTION="x11/lib"
 PKG_SHORTDESC="libfontenc: X11 font encoding library"