diff --git a/clucene.spec b/clucene.spec
index 0916abc..f4f1eaa 100644
--- a/clucene.spec
+++ b/clucene.spec
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ BuildRequires:	cmake
 BuildRequires:	gawk
 BuildRequires:	gcc-c++
 BuildRequires:	zlib-devel
+BuildRequires: make
 
 ## upstreamable patches
 # include LUCENE_SYS_INCLUDES in pkgconfig --cflags output