diff --git a/system/devel/gnuconfig/pspec.xml b/system/devel/gnuconfig/pspec.xml
index 8217c710..dbaacc0b 100644
--- a/system/devel/gnuconfig/pspec.xml
+++ b/system/devel/gnuconfig/pspec.xml
@@ -13,6 +13,9 @@
         <Summary>Base config files for autofoo</Summary>
         <Description>gnuconfig contains updated config.sub and config.guess files from GNU.</Description>
         <Archive sha1sum="3508641451087bd46acb1c63b6626dde4b2ec9d4" type="tarxz">https://sourceforge.net/projects/pisilinux/files/source/gnuconfig-20190912.tar.xz</Archive>
+        <BuildDependencies>
+                <Dependency>readline-devel</Dependency>
+        </BuildDependencies>
     </Source>
 
     <Package>