diff --git a/testing/razor/APKBUILD b/testing/razor/APKBUILD
index 71d3a020633..7034208641a 100644
--- a/testing/razor/APKBUILD
+++ b/testing/razor/APKBUILD
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ pkgdesc="Vipul's Razor is a distributed, collaborative spam detection and filter
 url="http://razor.sourceforge.net/"
 license="Artistic"
 depends="uclibc perl perl-digest-sha1 perl-getopt-long perl-uri-escape"
-makedepends=""
+makedepends="perl-dev"
 install=
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc"
 source="http://garr.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/razor/$_realname-$pkgver.tar.bz2"