diff --git a/libexttextcat.spec b/libexttextcat.spec
index 8732fdc..70ef8b4 100644
--- a/libexttextcat.spec
+++ b/libexttextcat.spec
@@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ URL: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Libexttextcat
 Source: http://dev-www.libreoffice.org/src/libexttextcat/%{name}-%{version}.tar.xz
 
 BuildRequires: gcc
+BuildRequires: make
 
 %description
 %{name} is an N-Gram-Based Text Categorization library primarily