diff --git a/extra/glib/APKBUILD b/extra/glib/APKBUILD
index 4614825aaec..b0d5aa4eb8c 100644
--- a/extra/glib/APKBUILD
+++ b/extra/glib/APKBUILD
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ pkgdesc="Common C routines used by Gtk+ and other libs"
 url="http://www.gtk.org"
 license='GPL'
 depends="gettext libiconv"
-makedepends="gettext-dev libiconv-dev"
+makedepends="gettext-dev libiconv-dev pkgconfig"
 source="http://ftp.gnome.org/pub/gnome/sources/glib/2.18/glib-2.18.3.tar.bz2"
 subpackages="$pkgname-doc $pkgname-dev"